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Marseillais Chess. Move twice per turn. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Anonymous wrote on Fri, Nov 15, 2002 05:39 PM UTC:<blockquote>
The second art that I acquired in Pentonville [prison] was so-called 'Marseilles chess.' It was invented by an elderly Frenchman, with a red scarf around his neck, who taught it to me during exercise hours. In this game, each player in turn makes two moves instead of one—the only restriction being that the first of the two moves should not be a check to the King. To the chess-addict is this a nerve-racking experience which shatters his outlook and upsets all his values. Hitler and the Gestapo have faded into the past, but the memory of Marseilles chess in Pentonville still makes me shudder.
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Arthur Koestler<br>
Introduction to <i>The Scum of the Earth</i> (1954)
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