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Chinese checkers : ウィキペディア英語版 | Chinese checkers
Chinese checkers (US spelling) or Chinese chequers (UK)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title = Chinese chequers )〕 is a strategy board game which can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners.〔According to Hoyle ''Puzzle & Board Games User Guide'', five people cannot play, because one player would lack an opponent sitting opposite.〕 The game is a modern and simplified variation of the game Halma.〔"Halma is played the same way as Chinese Checkers, except that the board grid is square rather than hexagonal. This makes the play more complicated because pieces can move in eight directions () instead of only six." .〕 The objective is to be first to race one's pieces across the hexagram-shaped gameboard into "home"—the corner of the star opposite one's starting corner—using single-step moves or moves which jump over other pieces. The others continue playing to establish 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and last place finishers.〔Bell (1983), p. 154〕 Like other skill-based games, Chinese checkers involves strategy. The rules are simple, so even young children can play.〔Mohr (1997), p. 75〕 ==History==
Despite its name, the game is not a variation of checkers, nor did it originate in China or any part of Asia (on the other hand, the game known as "Chinese chess", or ''xiangqi'', is from China). The game was invented in Germany in 1892 under the name "Stern-Halma" as a variation of the older American game Halma.〔Bernardo Johns, Stephanie; ''The Ethnic Almanac''. Doubleday Publishing (1981). ISBN 0-385-14143-2〕 The "Stern" (German for ''star'') refers to the board's star shape (in contrast to the square board used in Halma). The name "Chinese Checkers" originated in the United States as a marketing scheme by Bill and Jack Pressman in 1928. The Pressman company's game was originally called "Hop Ching Checkers". The game was introduced to Chinese-speaking regions mostly by the Japanese.〔
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