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Anonymous wrote on Tue, Aug 6, 2002 02:21 PM UTC:

Has anyone archived the chess variant 'Schach des Macchiavelli'
published in the beginning of the 80ies in the german alternative
newspaper 'die tageszeitung' (taz)?

I remember the following facts: It was a 4 player variant on
a non-checkered square board. The central field was special:
If your royal piece was placed there, you had additional moves
after every other player's moves. Captured pieces are left as
corpses on the board. They could be moved only by a special unit,
the nekromobil, which was unable to capture.

Any hints are welcome.

--J'org Knappen

Peter Aronson wrote on Tue, Aug 6, 2002 03:50 PM UTC:

Joerg, <p> That sounds like the French game described in the ECV as Djambi -- you can find some information on the Internet if you search under that name, including a (French) retailer who apparently still sells it. The inventor's name is Jean Anesto. <p> There's an extensive page in French on the game at: <a href="http://jeuxsoc.free.fr/d/djamb_rg.htm">http://jeuxsoc.free.fr/d/djamb_rg.htm</a>

Anonymous wrote on Wed, Aug 7, 2002 07:08 AM UTC:

Thanks Peter, that's it! Probably the taz article was 
a direct translation of that text, including the Foucault theme.

I think, it's worth an external link on the link pages.

--J'org Knappen

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