![]() ![]() Players jump over their own and their opponents' pieces with the objective of being the first to move all their pieces from one side to the opposing side. The Milton Bradley Company got a patent on Chinese Checkers thirteen years later (1941). Many were given other names but since no one seemed to own the rights to the name many were just called Chinese Checkers. Several other manufactures started to make the game. Sometimes pegs or other types of playing pieces are used instead of marbles. The color of the player’s marbles matches the color of their home point. Each player starts the game with 10 marbles filling all 10 spaces in their point of the star. In the 1930s a craze for Chinese Checkers swept across America. Game board The chinese checkers board is shaped like a star with 6 points. The game was given a Chinese name and theme in keeping with the current interest in all things oriental (among them the discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922 and the 'mah jongg' game that was introduced in 1923). The brothers Bill and Jack Pressman made up the name 'Chinese Checkers' around 1928. This was the same game as the 1892 Star-Halma. The first Chinese Checkers game to be published in the United States was 'Hop Ching Checkers' in 1928 by J. Spears & Sons introduced the star board to England in 1909. If youre not familiar with the rules, theyre easy to find. Ill assume that you already know how to play. The first game of Chinese Checkers was published and patented by the German game company Ravensburger (Otto Robert Maier) under the name Stern-Halma (stern means star in English Star-Halma) in 1892. Chinese Checkers is a fun strategy game thats easy to learn. The rules are simple (see INSTRUCTIONS ), but the fun will last for hours. Not only is the game now much more fast-paced, but it has also become more challenging and fun. This new version of the classic board game takes gameplay to a whole new level. Chinese Checkers is not from China and it really has nothing to do with the game Checkers. INSTRUCTIONS This isn't your parents' Chinese Checkers. Chinese Checkers was invented in Germany in 1892 and it's derived from the game of Halma (1883). ![]()
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