Editing Checkers (section)

=== Alquerque ===
[[File:Alquerque_board_at_starting_position_2.svg|right|thumb|Alquerque board and setup]]
An Arabic game called ''Quirkat'' or ''al-qirq'', with similar play to modern checkers, was played on a 5×5 board. It is mentioned in the tenth-century work [[Kitab al-Aghani]].<ref name="gameplay2" /> Al qirq was also the name for the game that is now called [[nine men's morris]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Berger|first=F|year=2004|title=From circle and square to the image of the world: a possible interpretation or some petroglyphs of merels boards|url=http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/aura/shared_files/Berger1.pdf|url-status=dead|journal=Rock Art Research|volume=21|issue=1|pages=11–25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041121040028/http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/aura/shared_files/Berger1.pdf|archive-date=21 November 2004}}</ref> Al qirq was brought to Spain by the [[Moors]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Bell|first=R. C.|title=Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations|publisher=[[Dover Publications]]|year=1979|isbn=0-486-23855-5|volume=I|location=[[New York City]]|pages=47–48|author-link=Robert Charles Bell}}</ref> where it became known as ''[[Alquerque]]'', the Spanish derivation of the Arabic name. It was maybe adapted into a derivation of ''latrunculi'', or the game of the Little Soldiers, with a leaping capture, which, like modern Argentine, German, Greek, Kenyan and Thai draughts, had flying kings which had to stop on the next square after the captured piece, but pieces could only make up to three captures at once, or seven if all directions were legal. That said, even if playing al qirq inside the cells of a square grid was not already known to the Moors who brought it, which it probably was, either via playing on a [[chessboard]] (in about 1100, probably in the south of France, this was done once again using [[backgammon]] pieces,<ref name="antique3">{{cite book |last1=Bell |first1=Robert Charles |title=Board and Table Game Antiques |date=1981 |publisher=Shire Books |isbn=0-85263-538-9 |page=13 |edition=2000 |url=https://isbnsearch.org/isbn/0852635389}}</ref> thereby each piece was called a "fers", the same name as the [[Queen (chess)|chess queen]], as the move of the two pieces was the same at the time)<ref name="Murray2">{{cite book |author=Murray, H. J. R. |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofchess00murr |title=A History of Chess |publisher=Benjamin Press |year=1985 |isbn=0-936317-01-9 |oclc=13472872 |author-link=H. J. R. Murray |origyear=First pub. 1913 by [[Oxford University Press]] }}</ref> or adapting [[Seega (game)|Seega]] using jumping capture. The rules are given in the 13th-century book ''[[Libro de los juegos]]''.<ref name="gameplay2" />