“Pi Ying said that this fight against death was no different, philosophically, from what all of them... had known in battle. In a cold way, it was true – not different, philosophically” (Vonnegut 91). Pi Ying proposed a chess game that would put the lives of everyone involved at risk. The King makes every move, each one may hide dangers that only the King can see. The emotional weight of that decision is a weight that a civilian cannot understand until they are exposed to that process. In Kurt Vonnegut's "All the King's Horses", Colonel Kelly and 15 others are trapped in a pseudo-chess game with a powerful Asian warlord, Pi Ying. He demands that the game be played with the prisoners of war as chess pieces. The idea contrasts with expendability as Colonel Kelly is able to justify sacrificing his son for the greater good of the game by forcing himself to deny his own humanity. It has to become like a machine to make these mechanical and logical decisions. However, the women involved in the game have violent emotional reactions to this incident because the human cost of war is not truly understood unless it is personal. Pi Ying witnesses this game with a woman who, when informed of the events that are about to happen, stabs him and then herself. That action is soon forgotten when Major Barzov takes command of the game, but he cannot run the same risk of killing American citizens. Since he cannot kill anyone, when he loses the game, he allows the remaining prisoners to escape. In this circumstance the idea is clear that the role of women in politics and their power in that society are weaker than those of a man. Colonel Kelly is seen as the ultimate authority in any decision making as a man. Its risks are allowed and finally celebrated. Pi Ying'... in the center of the paper... shows how the average citizen would see the war for the first time. Colonel Kelly sees her as “vacant and almost idiotic. She had taken refuge in a dull, blind, insensible shock” (Vonnegut 100). To a citizen who even understands the process of war, war is still atrocious and dubiously justified when seen firsthand. The man who seems to have just coldly given away his son's life without his own instinct has participated in this heinous wartime atrocity for so long, but it only affects her now because she cannot conceive of the reality of it until it is personally in danger. in front of her. This indicates less comprehensive war political education even among those whose entire lives the war may have affected. The proximity and victims of this "game" will affect her more because she will have to observe every move that previously could have been kept impartial and unseen.