
The game may be played without misfortune a few times, but sooner or later it will come to be felt that loss of face is more dreadful than nuclear annihilation. Both are to blame for playing such an incredibly dangerous game. But when the game is played by eminent statesmen, who risk not only their own lives but those of many hundreds of millions of human beings, it is thought on both sides that the statesmen on one side are displaying a high degree of wisdom and courage, and only the statesmen on the other side are reprehensible. As played by irresponsible boys, this game is considered decadent and immoral, though only the lives of the players are risked. If one of them swerves from the white line before the other, the other, as they pass, shouts 'Chicken!', and the one who has swerved becomes an object of contempt. As they approach each other, mutual destruction becomes more and more imminent. Each car is expected to keep the wheels on one side of the white line.


It is played by choosing a long straight road with a white line down the middle and starting two very fast cars toward each other from opposite ends. This is a policy adapted from a sport which, I am told, is practiced by some youthful degenerates. Since the nuclear stalemate became apparent, the Governments of East and West have adopted the policy which Mr. Bertrand Russell famously compared the game of Chicken to nuclear brinkmanship: The phrase game of chicken is also used as a metaphor for a situation where two parties engage in a showdown where they have nothing to gain, and only pride stops them from backing down. This yields a situation where each player, in attempting to secure their best outcome, risks the worst. Additionally, a crash is presumed to be the worst outcome for both players.
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It is presumed that the best thing for each driver is to stay straight while the other swerves (since the other is the "chicken" while a crash is avoided). If neither player swerves, the result is a costly deadlock in the middle of the bridge, or a potentially fatal head-on collision. The first to swerve away yields the bridge to the other. The game of chicken models two drivers, both headed for a single-lane bridge from opposite directions. The game has also been used to describe the mutual assured destruction of nuclear warfare, especially the sort of brinkmanship involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis. From a game-theoretic point of view, "chicken" and "hawk–dove" are identical. The name "hawk–dove" refers to a situation in which there is a competition for a shared resource and the contestants can choose either conciliation or conflict this terminology is most commonly used in biology and evolutionary game theory.
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The name "chicken" has its origins in a game in which two drivers drive toward each other on a collision course: one must swerve, or both may die in the crash, but if one driver swerves and the other does not, the one who swerved will be called a " chicken", meaning a coward this terminology is most prevalent in political science and economics. However, when one player yields, the conflict is avoided, and the game is for the most part over. Each player taunts the other to increase the risk of shame in yielding. The principle of the game is that while the ideal outcome is for one player to yield (to avoid the worst outcome if neither yields), the individuals try to avoid it out of pride for not wanting to look like a "chicken".

The game of chicken, also known as the hawk–dove game or snowdrift game, is a model of conflict for two players in game theory. For the natural phenomenon, see Snowdrift.
