Editing Mak-yek (section)

== Classification ==
Mak-yek, Apit-sodok, Rek, and Min Rek Chanh are all played on an 8 × 8 square board with each player having sixteen pieces, exhibit intervention capture and custodian capture (or a modified custodian in the case of Rek and Min Rek Chanh), and pieces move like the Rook in Chess with the exception of the kings in Min Rek Chanh; furthermore, captured pieces are immediately removed from the board (as opposed to being converted into the capturing player's pieces as in Ming Mang and a few others). These commonalities suggest that they may form a subfamily within the family of games that also includes Jul-Gonu, Hasami shogi, Dai hasami shogi, Ming Mang, Gundru, Seega, Ludus latrunculorum, Petteia, and Firdawsi’s Nard.  They also bear resemblance to the [[Tafl games]] which exhibit custodian capture and rook-like movement of pieces except that the Tafl games are asymmetrical in the number and type of pieces each player possess, and the objective in Tafl games is for one player to move their king to the edge of the board with the objective of the other player to capture that king.  They distantly resemble [[Agon (game)|Agon]], [[Awithlaknakwe]], [[Bizingo]], [[Watermelon chess|Watermelon Chess]], [[Reversi]], and Othello as all of these games exhibit custodian capture or some form of it.  They may also distantly resemble Wéiqí, Baduk, and Go as these games also have a capturing method resembling custodian.

Rek and Min Rek Chanh's "custodian" capturing method resembles that of Watermelon Chess where the player performing the capture must completely surround their opponent's piece (or possibly pieces as in the case of Rek) with or without the aid of the edge(s) of the board, and in such a way that the captured piece(s) cannot perform a legal move (hypothetically on the opponent's next turn).  The capturing method also resembles that of Wéiqí, Baduk, and Go.

Rek and Min Rek Chanh may be classified as chess variants since the objective is to capture the other player's king.

Since Gala utilizes custodian capture and an n x n square board that is uncheckered, it is therefore related to Mak-yek, Apit-sodok, Rek, and Minh Rek Chanh.  But Gala differs greatly in many ways.  Firstly, its board is smaller with 7 x 7 squares since the board is thought to be originally used for a race-game according to Murray.  Secondly, the number of pieces each player has is different, with the Black player only having 10 pieces and the White player having 13 pieces.  Thirdly, the board is empty in the beginning of the game thus requiring a drop phase before a movement phase begins.  Moreover, the first move of the game (which is made by Black) is required to be placed on the central square.  Lastly, there is no capture by intervention.  

The second version of Mak-yek might be a hunt game, but one of the more rare ones that use a square board as in [[Fox games#Fox and Hounds|Fox and Hounds]], except in Fox and Hounds capture by leap (or any form of capture) is not allowed, but in Mak-yek it is allowed.