“In a tournament, \(x\) is a king chicken (or king) if for every opponent \(y\), either \(x \rightarrow y\) or there exists a player \(z\) such that \(x \rightarrow z \rightarrow y\). In other words, a king is a player that can walk to any vertex in at most 2 steps” (Benjamin, 2009, 81).

Consider the graph below: