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    The Libro de los juegos (Spanish: "Book of games"), or Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas ("Book of chess, dice and tables", in Old Spanish), was a Spanish...
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    Spanish todas tablas, the latter name first being used in the 1283 El Libro de los Juegos, a translation of Arabic manuscripts by the Toledo School of Translators...
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    contributed to the chess literature of the period, culminating with the Libro de los juegos (1283), commissioned by Alfonso X in the 13th century. Also of Spanish...
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    Astronomical chess or Astrological chess for seven is a game from the book Libro de los Juegos (Book of Games), written under king Alfonso X the Wise in 1283. The...
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    Iceland by the 13th century. In Spain, the Alfonso X manuscript Libro de los juegos, completed in 1283, describes rules for a number of dice and table...
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    invaded Spain they took El-quirkat with them". Rules are included in Libro de los juegos ("Book of games") commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile in the 13th...
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  • back to the time of King Alfonso X of Castile. It appears in the Libro de los Juegos of 1283. The following rules are from the reconstruction given on...
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    Backgammon (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Iceland by the 13th century. In Spain, the Alfonso X manuscript Libro de los juegos, completed in 1283, describes rules for a number of dice and table...
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    Spanish manuscript covering shatranj, backgammon and dice named the Libro de los juegos, which is the earliest European treatise on chess as well as being...
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    manuscript covering chess, backgammon, and dice is known as the Libro de los juegos, which is the earliest European treatise on chess as well as being...
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    Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez (translation: "Book of the liberal invention and art of the game of chess") is one of the first...
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    of the modern bishop and queen movements in the 15th century. The Libro de los juegos (1283) contains a description of the chessboard, describing eight...
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  • terms "social game" and "board game" are largely synonymous. The Libro de los Juegos ("Book of Games") written in 1283 on behalf of the Castilian king...
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    Chess. An important source of medieval games is the Libro de los juegos, ("Book of games"), or Libro de acedrex, dados e tablas, ("Book of chess, dice and...
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    called a cocatriz or crocodile, is part of the Grande Acedrex in the Libro de los juegos compiled in 1283 for King Alfonso X of Castile. The game is attributed...
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    clothing, but that such clothing were worn in an intimate context; the Libro de los juegos claimed that Muslim women wore transparent tunics, which has been...
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    using jumping capture. The rules are given in the 13th-century book Libro de los juegos. The rule of crowning was used by the 13th century, as it is mentioned...
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    the game of Emperador listed by King Alfonso X of Castile in his Libro de los Juegos ("Book of Games") published in 1278. It may have been the game frequently...
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    so is the winner. In Alfonso X's 13th century book of games, El Libro de los Juegos, is a game called Todas Tablas, which many scholars equate to modern...
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    artistic value. Perhaps the best known example is the 13th-century Libro de los juegos. The book contains 151 illustrations, and while most of them are...
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    A 13th-century illustration in Libro de los juegos of the game being played with dice...
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    rolls from damaging the playing surface. The word die comes from Old French ; from Latin datum "something which is given or played". While the terms ace...
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    style are illustrated. Alfonso also had the Libro de ajedrez, dados, y tablas ("Libro de los Juegos" (The Book of Games)) translated into Castilian from...
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    Nacional de Educación a Distancia: 199–200. doi:10.5944/aldaba.5.1985.19609. Celia Prados García: La expulsión de los judíos y el retorno de los sefardíes...
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  • hare games). The earliest record of the game is in Alfonso X's "Libro de los juegos" or "Book of Games" in 1283. The record shows a game called cercar...
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  • a four-player tables game described in the Alfonso X manuscript Libro de los juegos Mundo (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    translation of an Arabic work on chess, dice and tables games called the Libro de los Juegos in 1283. The work contains information on the playing of chess, with...
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    drawings of late-medieval artist-engineers Guido da Vigevano and Villard de Honnecourt can be viewed as forerunners of later Renaissance artist-engineers...
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  • form of Algebraic Chess Notation. 1283 – Alfonso X compiles the Libro de los juegos, with an extensive collection of chess problems. late 13th century...
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    Versus de scachis, the earliest known reference to chess in a European text Chess in early literature History of chess Libro de los Juegos Negri, Sergio...
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