(EDIT: I hope the jest is clear. Murder is bad.)
Even the expression for the end of the game, shah mat = the king is dead (in Persian).
It would have be scored by Ennio Morricone, who was passionate about chess: "When I was a kid I had two ambitions, to become either a physician, or a chess player, not a musician." [0]
[0] https://www.chess.com/blog/RoaringPawn/in-memoriam-ennio-mor...
Tangentially, this reminds me of an amusing chess conundrum. Is it possible for a position to occur in a legal game of chess where all pieces and pawns are on the board, all of them are on their original squares, and white does not have the move? For purposes of this question, a knight or rook is considered to be on its original square either if it is on the square it started on or if it has swapped positions with the other knight or rook of the same color.
No, and that's quite easy to prove: With all pawns on their original position, the only valid moves are by knights and rooks, and for each such move the moving piece changes the color of space it occupies (for rooks that's because they have only 1 empty place to move).
That is, in order to return to the initial position, each side must make an even number of moves (knights exchanged or not), so next move will be always white's.
So for the sake of completeness, I would expect the rule to cover all deaths at the table.
