The first Spanish books about the game of draughts

have a very high level and date from the XVI

century, while the first French book comes from

the XVII century and the game described is a

very elemental one. Contrary to this evidence, the

scholars did not consider it necessary to grant

Spain the honour of being the creative country of

the game of draughts and of the new modality in the

chess game with the new dama. Both the alquerque-3

as the alquerque-9 games were known in Roman

times. Completely different is the situation for the

game alquerque-12 game. It is said that the alquerque

has its origin in Egypt. Perhaps this is the case for the

alquerque-3 and alquerque-9 games, but never for

alquerque-12 game. Some authors claim that the

alquerque-12 game is a Greek or Roman game, but the

great expert of these games, Dr. Ulrich Schädler,

discards it. This book is the first proof that the

alquerque-12 game was not popular at all in France,

but much more in Spain, where the new chess game

and draughts game were invented.