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Chinese checkers (US) or Chinese chequers (UK), [1] known as Sternhalma in German, is a strategy board game of German origin that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners. [2] The game is a modern and simplified variation of the game Halma. [3]
Today's Game of the Day is a board game classic: Chinese Checkers! Chinese Checkers, contrary to popular belief, was not invented in China, or, indeed, any part of Asia at all. It was actually ...
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The Game of Chinese Chess, engraving. The Game of Chinese Chess or The Game of Chinese Checkers (French: Le jeu d'échets chinois) is a drawing by the French artist François Boucher, showing an orientalised image of two people playing Xiangqi. Although actual Xiangqi pieces are all round, the shapes of the pieces in the drawing are more varied.
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One of the company's first hits was Chinese checkers, a game that Pressman acquired the rights to in 1928 after spotting the game on a trip to Colorado, and first marketed as "Hop Ching Checkers". [2] The company was an innovator in licensing games and toys from popular media, such as the Little Orphan Annie and Dick Tracy comic strips.