Chinese Checkers
Traditional
How to set-up
1. Chinese Checkers is played on a star-shaped board with 121 points which are the play spaces.
2. Each player selects 10 BEADs the colour of their choice .
3. BEADs are placed on all the points of one arm of the star. Players start on opposite points, in a 3-player game players use alternating arms.
4. Players decide who starts.
How to play
1. In turns, each player moves 1 BEAD 1 space horizontally, vertically or diagonally to an empty play space.
2. Players can also move their BEADs by jumping over another BEAD onto an empty space beyond.
3. Jumps can be chained together if, upon completing the jump, there is a BEAD adjacent and an empty space beyond.
4. A player can jump over their own BEAD or their opponent’s.
How to win
To win, a player must move all their BEADs to their opponent’s starting position on the opposite end of the board. In a 3-player game, players must move to one of the starting positions of either of their opponent’s.
History
1. Despite its name, this game is not a variation of checkers, nor did it originate in China or any other part of Asia.
2. The game was invented in Germany in 1892 with the name Stern-Halma as a variation of the older American game Halma.
3. The name - Chinese Checkers originated in the United States as a marketing scheme by Bill and Jack Pressman in the year 1928.
1. Super Chinese Checkers play the same as the original game, except that the jumping rules are different.
2. A piece may jump over another piece, provided that the piece that is jumped lies at the exact midpoint of the jump.
3. That is, the number of spaces the jumping piece moves before reaching the jumped piece must equal the number of spaces moved after passing it.
4. A jump onto an occupied space is prohibited. Multiple jumps of varying distances are allowed, as long as each single jump follows the new rule.
5. Note that the standard Chinese Checkers jump is still legal under the new rules; it just happens to be the shortest possible way to jump.
