Editing Mak-yek (section)

=== Rek ===
A similar game is also played in Cambodia called '''Rek'''.<ref name="RekCazaux" /> The game is played on an 8 x 8 uncheckered square board with each player having 16 pieces similar to Mak-yek and Apit-sodok.  One of the 16 pieces is a king, and the other 15 pieces are called men.  The kings should be of the same color as their respective men, but distinguishable by size or design from them.  The game begins with the 15 men situated on the first and third row (somewhat similar to Mak-yek) with only 7 men on the first row and 8 men on the third row.  Each player's king is situated on the very far left (or very far right) square of their respective second rows.  The first row square directly below each king is left vacant.  All pieces including the king move orthogonally any number of unobstructed squares on the board as in the rook of chess.  The objective of each player is to capture the other player's king.  It thus resembles chess in this respect.  It is not an elimination game as in Mak-yek and Apit-sodok, although elimination of all pieces does imply capture of the other player's king.  Intervention capture is the same as in Mak-yek and Apit-sodok, and it is called Rek from which the name of the game is derived from.  A type of custodian capture is also featured in the game, but unlike Mak-yek and Apit-sodok where a player only has to flank the opponent's piece(s) on two opposite sides, it requires the player performing the capture to completely surround an opponent's piece or group of pieces with or without the aid of the edge(s) of the board, and in such a way that the pieces being captured cannot perform a legal move (hypothetically on the opponent's next turn).  Rek is a transitive verb which means "carry on one's shoulder a pole at each end of which is a container, bundle or object", and the two containers at each end of the pole are symbolic of the two pieces captured through intervention and are carried away by the player performing the capture. Rek is pronounced like rake but the k is silent.  Another variant called '''Min Rek Chanh''' is also similarly related.<ref name="RekCazaux">{{cite web|last1=Cazaux|first1=Jean-Louis|title=Cambodian|url=http://homepage.eircom.net/~reidr1/Cambodian.htm|website=Chesmayne|access-date=31 March 2017}}</ref>