Editing Mak-yek (section)

=== Apit-sodok ===
A Malaysian variant called '''[https://boardgameguys.com/apit-sodok/ Apit-sodok]''' is closely related.<ref name="SamusahApitSodok">{{cite book|url=http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/jmbras/jmbrasvol10.pdf|title=Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume X|date=January 1932|publisher=Printers Limited|location=Singapore|pages=138–140|last1=Samusah|first1=Rajah|access-date=16 April 2017}}</ref>  The game is documented in R.J. Wilkinson's work ''Papers on Malay Subjects'' (1910),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C0MTAAAAYAAJ&q=Wilkinson%2C+Richard+James+%281908%29.+Papers+on+Malay+Subjects.+Life+and+Customs.+Part+I.+The+Incidents+of+Malay+Life.+Kuala+Lumpur&pg=PP7|title=Papers on Malay Subjects. Life and Customs. Part III. Malay Amusements.|last=Wilkinson|first=Richard James|publisher=F.M.S. Government Press|year=1910|location=Kuala Lumpur|pages=58}}</ref> and Raja Samusah's article ''The Malay Game of Apit'' (1932),<ref name="SamusahApitSodok" /> and both refer to the game as '''Apit'''.  Samusah also refers to the game as '''Sodok Apit'''.  Both authors describe custodian and intervention capture, but only Samusah describes orthogonal movement of pieces as in the rook in chess.  Samusah specifically describes that a line of enemy pieces can be captured through custodian whereas in Mak-yek only a single enemy piece may be captured.  But Captain James Low's description of Maak yék does include [[custodian capture]] for a line of enemy pieces.<ref name="HuttmannMakYek" /> Samusah describes that a corner piece cannot be captured by surrounding it on its two adjacent squares and the diagonally adjacent square.  He also describes that a piece can move safely next to a friendly piece(s) (on a row or column) despite being flanked as a linear group on two opposite ends by opposing pieces provided there are no spaces between any of them (friendly and opposing pieces).  Both Wilkinson and Samusah agree that the game is played on a [[draughts]] board, and Samusah specifically illustrates an 8 x 8 uncheckered board similar to most versions of Mak-yek.  Samusah describes that "There are 16 pieces, all of equal value; and these are arranged in two rows as in chess", but does not specifically reference the chess variant.  Malaysia's chess variant is called Main Chator, and the pieces are set up on the first two rows nearest each player similar to Western chess.<ref group="note">see page 99 of "A History of Chess" (1913) by H.J.R. Murray which states "At the commencement of the game the chessmen are arranged as in the Indian game (diagram, p.80)...", and on page 80 the pieces of the modern Indian Chess are set up on the first two rows nearest each player.</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VBYLAAAAIAAJ&q=Apit-Sodok+Culin&pg=PA95|title=A History of Chess|last=Murray|first=Harold James Ruthven|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1913|location=Oxford|pages=99}}</ref>  This is a contrast as to how Mak-yek's pieces are initially set up which are on the first and third row nearest each player.  As an English translation from the Malay language, apit means squeezed,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jvOjDAAAQBAJ&q=Apit+cognate&pg=PA86|title=Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates|last=Potet|first=Jean-Paul G.|publisher=Lulu Press, Inc.|year=2016|isbn=978-1-326-61579-6|location=Raleigh, NC USA|pages=86}}</ref> and this is associated with custodian capture.<ref name="SamusahApitSodok" />  Sodok means a shovel or spade or a duck's bill, or the process of shoveling up,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/aeg2034.0001.001.umich.edu|quote=A Malay-English dictionary, Sodok.|title=A Malay-English Dictionary|last=Wilkinson|first=R.J.|publisher=Kelly and Walsh, Limited.|year=1901|location=Singapore|pages=[https://archive.org/details/aeg2034.0001.001.umich.edu/page/417 417]}}</ref> and this is associated with intervention capture.<ref name="SamusahApitSodok" />