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One of the earliest chess pieces introduced in Lewis Carroll's 1871 fantasy novel Through the Looking-Glass, the White King though not much interactive throughout, however, on some levels, plays the most important role within the story at least as far as the game is concerned. The king’s portrayal as quiet and naive is in fact tantamount to the moderate, juvenile nature of the King of Hearts in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as reflected in his remark to Mad Hatter while acting as a judge at the Knave of Hearts’ trial “don't be nervous or I'll have you executed on the spot”. Prior to the game, the White King appears to be an animate chess piece of normal size and, for whatever reason, cannot hear or see Alice after she passed through the eponymous looking glass. Alice, not realising this, picks both him and the White Queen off the floor and places them on a table, leading them to believe that some unseen volcano blew them up there. Afterwards, however, she has some m...

  “I don't know what you mean by your way, all the ways about here belong to me…”—  The Red Queen, Through the Looking Glass. An amalgam of the Queen of Hearts, and even sometimes the Duchess from the previous book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), the Red Queen is portrayed as a domineering, puritanical, officious and matronly woman in Lewis Carroll's 1871 fantasy novel Through the Looking-Glass . Civil but yet unpleasant, she brings Alice into the chess game as the White Queen’s pawn and is often seen to hound her about her lack of etiquette and general knowledge like a quintessential Victorian governess. Though viewed as an antagonist in the story for her being in the side opposing Alice, their initial encounter besides the flowers is a cordial one, with the Red Queen explaining the rules of Chess concerning promotion to Alice in that she is able to become a queen initially by starting out as a pawn and ultimately reaching the eighth square. Alice finds herself r...

Introduced as one of the queens in Looking-glass World, the White Queen is a fictional character who appears in Lewis Carroll's 1871 fantasy novel Through the Looking-Glass. Prior to the game, the White Queen along with her husband the White King first appears to be an animate chess piece of normal size in the drawing room looking for her daughter Lily just beyond the titular looking-glass and, for whatever reason, cannot hear or see Alice after she passed through the eponymous looking glass. Alice, not realising this, picks both her and the White King off the floor and places them on a table, leading them to believe that some unseen volcano blew them up there. Upon her first arrival, Alice finds the White Queen extremely perplexing and not particularly queen-like. She does not meet her as a human-sized character until the Fifth Square. The White Queen is portrayed as an elderly woman who is very aware of her situations and what is going to happen next. She looks untidy with a comb...