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Evidence for Alquerque de Tres
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1476
Type Rules text
Location Alfonso X
Date 1283-01-01 - 1283-12-31
Rules 3x3 intersecting lines, with diagonal lines of the board. Three pieces per player. players alternate turns placing a piece on one of the empty spots. The player who places their pieces in a line wins. If no player can win, the game is a draw.
Content "This is another alquerque of three (three men’s morris).
There is another mill game and it is called three men’s morris. It is called that because it is played with six pieces, three of one colour and three of another. In this one dice do not have a part. And this game is this:
And the first one to put his pieces in a row wins.
And since the one who plays first should place his piece in the centre of the millboard, the second player will place his wherever he likes. The first player should place his second piece in such a manner that the other player is forced to place his piece in a row with his opponents’ [to block]. Since the first to play is forced to play the same on the first two turns and all his pieces are now placed.
And if in this way he placed them so that wherever the other player puts his remaining piece he loses. And if the first player does not play like that the other will be able to tie or to win.And because of the tied game and the board markings where the pieces are placed it has part of tables and part of chess because the pieces with which it is played resemble its pawns.
And this is the figure of the board and of the pieces." Gollday's translation of Alfonso X's Libro de los Juegos 93, accompanied by an illustration of two children playing the game.
Confidence 100
Ages Child
Source Golladay, S. M. n.d. Alfonso X’s Book of Games. Translated by Sonja Musser Golladay.
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