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Chinese Checkers
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Chinese Checkers, disappointingly, is no more than Halma (a Victorian games invented in the 1880s) transported to a star shaped board. It was first patented in the West by Ravensburger, the famous German games company, under the name Stern-Halma in Germany a few years after Halma appeared.
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Perhaps the most beautiful wooden Chinese Checkers game made in the USA. Crafted from solid cherry with a durable natural finish. Instructions are engraved on the back. This standard round game is 11-1/2" in diameter and comes with 10 marbles in 6 different colors—red, green, yellow, black, blue and white. The game comes shrink wrapped with a pouch for marble storage. Play with up to 6 players.
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Chinese Checkers could be played by two, three, four or six people. Each player started the game with a set of colored marbles (usually ten) that were gathered at one of the star’s points. The goal was to move all your pieces across the board and to the star point opposite you. A player could move his marble to an adjacent square, or hop his marble over other pieces, including those of his own color. This “jumping” movement was what tied the game to regular checkers, except unlike checkers, a player didn’t pick up the opponent’s pieces after jumping over them. In Chinese Checkers, all the marbles stayed on the board—and your enemies’ pieces were there not to collect, but to leap frog over.
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The Chinese Checkers board is in the shape of a six pointed star. Each point of the star is a triangle consisting of ten holes (four holes to each side). The interior of the board is a hexagon with each side five holes long. Each triangle is a different colour and there are six sets of ten pegs with corresponding colours.
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The heirloom quality, solid wood Chinese Checkers board has been painstakingly hand-crafted, hand-sanded and hand-stained to give it a nostalgic flair. It is designed and crafted to provide generations of family playtime fun, and to be handed down from generation to generation.
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Knowledge of openings is very important to playing Chinese Checkers well -- similar to chess. In play among experienced players there are only a few openings that are commonly seen. Although there are 14 possible first moves (7 if you eliminate symmetrical moves for the first player), experienced players play only two.
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