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'''Mak-yek''' ({{lang-th|หมากแยก}}, {{RTGS|''mak yaek''}}) is a [[board game]] played in [[Thailand]] and [[Myanmar|Burma]].<ref name="HuttmannMakYek">{{cite book|last1=Huttmann|first1=G.H.|title=Asiatic Researches; or, Transactions of the Society, Instituted in Bengal, For Inquiring into The History, The Antiquities, The Arts and Sciences, and Literature of Asia, Volume 20|date=1836|publisher=Bengal Military Orphan Press|location=Calcutta|page=382-383|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ygoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA382&lpg=PA382&dq=maak-yek&source=bl&ots=e8K8IG7PF6&sig=eoCXwnAfI5nrN4zNmfJiTgCwN2s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjovtCcopzTAhXqx1QKHVQ8B88Q6AEIJDAE#v=onepage&q=maak-yek&f=false|accessdate=16 April 2017}}</ref><ref name="MurrayMakYek">{{cite book|last1=Murray|first1=H.J.R.|title=A History of Chess: The Original 1913 Edition|date=2012|publisher=First Skyhorse Publishing|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-1-63220-293-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dNSBCgAAQBAJ&pg=RA2-PA170&lpg=RA2-PA170&dq=Mak-yek++H.J.R.+Murray&source=bl&ots=IfS1Ki2R7t&sig=8-uQqdGMv9ln7nP-ryWOMTB3LR0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiexsvs4JvTAhVCr1QKHeEtC1QQ6AEIPjAH#v=onepage&q=Mak-yek%20%20H.J.R.%20Murray&f=false|accessdate=16 April 2017}}</ref><ref name="CronidaMakYek">{{cite web|last1=Cronida|first1=Ares|title=Los juegos de soldados|url=https://arescronida.wordpress.com/tag/mak-yek/|website=Ares Cronida cuentos, mitos, leyendas, magia y más|publisher=wordpress.com|accessdate=16 April 2017}}</ref> The game is played on an 8 by 8 square board by two players each having sixteen pieces or "men." A Malaysian variant called '''Apit-sodok''' is closely related.<ref name="SamusahApitSodok">{{cite book|last1=Samusah|first1=Rajah|title=Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume X|date=January 1932|publisher=Printers Limited|location=Singapore|pages=138-140|url=http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/jmbras/jmbrasvol10.pdf|accessdate=16 April 2017}}</ref> |
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'''Mak-yek''' ({{lang-th|หมากแยก}}, {{RTGS|''mak yaek''}}) is a [[board game]] played in [[Thailand]] and [[Malaysia]] (where it is known as '''Apit-sodok''') on an 8 by 8 board by two players each having sixteen pieces or "men." |
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Men are laid out on the first and third row from the player. There is no special way of deciding who starts the game. Players take turns moving their men horizontally or vertically like the [[rook (chess)|rook]] in [[chess]] (i.e. not through pieces), capturing the opponent's pieces through [[custodian capture]] and [[intervention (board games)|intervention]] capture. |
Men are laid out on the first and third row from the player. There is no special way of deciding who starts the game. Players take turns moving their men horizontally or vertically like the [[rook (chess)|rook]] in [[chess]] (i.e. not through pieces), capturing the opponent's pieces through [[custodian capture]] and [[intervention (board games)|intervention]] capture. |
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Revision as of 10:59, 16 April 2017
Mak-yek (Template:Lang-th, RTGS: mak yaek) is a board game played in Thailand and Burma.[1][2][3] The game is played on an 8 by 8 square board by two players each having sixteen pieces or "men." A Malaysian variant called Apit-sodok is closely related.[4]
Men are laid out on the first and third row from the player. There is no special way of deciding who starts the game. Players take turns moving their men horizontally or vertically like the rook in chess (i.e. not through pieces), capturing the opponent's pieces through custodian capture and intervention capture.
Intervention capture is the opposite of custodian. If a stone moves between two enemy stones, it captures both stones.
The first player with no pieces left loses.
A similar game is also played in Cambodia called Rek where both custodian and intervention captures are also featured, however each player has a king with the ultimate goal of capturing the other player's king. A variant of Rek called Min Rek Chanh is also similarly related.[5]
Mak-yek belongs to the family of games that includes Jul-Gonu, Hasami shogi, Dai hasami shogi, Ming Mang, Gundru, Seega, Ludus latrunculorum, and Petteia as all these games exhibit custodian capture of some sort, and the pieces move orthogonally. It is also related to the Tafl games for the same reasons except that the Tafl games are asymmetrical in the number and type of pieces each player possess; furthermore, the objective in Tafl is for one player to move their king to the edge of the board, and the objective of the other player is to capture the king. It is distantly related to Agon which uses a hexagonally-celled board. It may also be distantly related to Reversi, Othello, Wei-chi, Baduk, and Go, Awithlaknakwe, and Bizingo as all of these games exhibit custodian capture or some form of it (as in the case of Wei-chi, Baduk, and Go).
References
- ^ Huttmann, G.H. (1836). Asiatic Researches; or, Transactions of the Society, Instituted in Bengal, For Inquiring into The History, The Antiquities, The Arts and Sciences, and Literature of Asia, Volume 20. Calcutta: Bengal Military Orphan Press. p. 382-383. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- ^ Murray, H.J.R. (2012). A History of Chess: The Original 1913 Edition. New York, NY: First Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN 978-1-63220-293-2. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- ^ Cronida, Ares. "Los juegos de soldados". Ares Cronida cuentos, mitos, leyendas, magia y más. wordpress.com. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- ^ Samusah, Rajah (January 1932). Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume X (PDF). Singapore: Printers Limited. pp. 138–140. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- ^ Cazaux, Jean-Louis. "Cambodian". Chesmayne. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
Bibliography
- H. J. R. Murray: History of Board Games other than Chess (1952)
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