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- Alquerque (also known as qirkat from Arabic: القرقات) is a strategy board game that is thought to have originated in the Middle East. It is considered...
- captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers is developed from alquerque. The term "checkers" derives from the checkered board which the game is...
- alquerque board. However, unlike standard alquerque, an additional two triangular boards are attached on two opposite sides of the standard alquerque...
- rural areas of the country. The game is pla**** on a 5×5 point grid, like alquerque. Pieces are positioned at the intersection of the lines and not inside...
- Spain. It is a hunt game, and since it uses a standard alquerque board from the game alquerque de doze,: 601  it is specifically a tiger hunt game (or...
- brought alquerque to the Americas, and this accounts for the use of the alquerque board in this game. The board used is an expanded alquerque board with...
- relative of draughts and alquerque. Captures are done by jumping over pieces. The Spanish are thought to have brought the game of alquerque to America several...
- draughts and alquerque as players hop over one another's pieces to capture them; they are most similar to alquerque as a standard alquerque board is used...
- Brazilian architecture, civil engineering and real estate development company Alquerque, a strategy board game, considered the parent of the draughts board games...
- in the Philippines Duke of Alburquerque, a Spanish aristocratic title Alquerque, a board game considered to be the parent of draughts (checkers) This...