Were one of the games in the Middle Ages checkers?
Thursday, May 6th, 2010 at
5:36 am
I need information on the Middle Ages board games for a project for school. All I need to know is if I can bring in checkers for my project.
Yes! You can can bring in checkers for your project. To go with it, you will
probably need this explanation: about checkers, and about the Middle Ages.
Around the 12th century, a French person used a chess board to play Alquerque.
That was the first checkers game!
Alquerque was much like checkers, except that it was played on a different board.
Later, maybe in 1535, a new rule was added: when a player can jump, he must jump.
This made the game of checkers much more interesting.
Checkers History – Wikipedia
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers
The Middle Ages are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium
(one thousand years = 10 centuries = 1 millennium), commonly dated from:
• the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, to
• the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century.
Middle Ages – Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages
I would say yes you could. Based on what this website is telling me Checkers were played by the French as far back at 1100 AD.
I think you just missed out…
A Spanish book on the game (El Ingenio o juego de marro, de punto o damas) was published in 1547 and is recognised as the first book about the modern form of the game. Although people were probably playing earlier, I think it’s more of a Renaissance game.
But, to make up for that, here’s a link to some medieval games :
http://www.modaruniversity.org/Games.htm