Editing Libro de los juegos (section)

==Background==
Alfonso was likely influenced by his contact with scholars in the Arab world.<ref name="wollesen"/> Unlike many contemporary texts on the topic, he does not engage the games in the text with moralistic arguments; instead, he portrays them in an [[Astrology|astrological]] context.<ref name="wollesen"/> He conceives of gaming as a dichotomy between the [[intellect]] and chance. The book is divided into three parts reflecting this: the first on chess (a game purely of [[abstract strategy]]), the second on dice (with outcomes controlled strictly by chance), and the last on tables (combining elements of both).<ref name="wollesen"/> The first section of the book also speaks of some other games of abstract strategy, notably [[alquerque]] and [[nine men's morris]], among others. The text may have been influenced by [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]]'s text on [[falconry]].<ref name="wollesen"/>