Check and Checkmate

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Check and Checkmate, by Walter Miller This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Check and Checkmate Author: Walter Miller Illustrator: TOM BEECHAM Release Date: June 16, 2010 [EBook #32837] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHECK AND CHECKMATE *** Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net CHECK and CHECKMATE By WALTER MILLER, Jr. Illustrated by TOM BEECHAM [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from IF Worlds of Science Fiction January 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] John Smith XVI, new President of the Western Federation Victory hinges notof Autonomous States, had made a number of campaign always on thepromises that nobody really expected him to fulfill, for after mightiest sword,all, the campaign and the election were only ceremonies, but often on lowly and the President—who had no real name of his own—had subterfuge. Here is been trained for the executive post since birth. He had been a classic example, with the Westernelected by a popular vote of 603,217,954 to 130, the World as stooge!