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While the standard rules allow hopping over only a single adjacent occupied position at a time (as in checkers), this version of the game allows pieces to catapult over multiple adjacent occupied positions in a line when hopping. In the fast-paced or Super Chinese Checkers variant, popular in France, [9] a piece may hop over a non-adjacent ...
Chinese Checkers, a variant of Halma, was originally published in 1892 as Stern-Halma [4] (German for "Star Halma") and later renamed upon marketing to the United States to appear more exotic. The name is misleading, since the game has no historical connection with China, nor is it a checkers game.
Xiangqi (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː ŋ tʃ i /; Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China.
Chinese Checkers, contrary to popular belief, was not invented in China, or, indeed, any part of Asia at all. It was actually invented in Germany under the name "Stern-Halma"!
Abacus checkers is a traditional two-player game popular in China. The game is played on a five-plus-two bead suanpan abacus. Rules are grouped into three main categories: Halma -type, Checkers -type, and Go -type.
An abstract strategy game is a board, card or other game where game play does not simulate a real world theme, and a player's decisions affect the outcome.Many abstract strategy games are also combinatorial, i.e. they provide perfect information, and rely on neither physical dexterity nor random elements such as rolling dice or drawing cards or tiles.
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Subsequent to Game of the Three Kingdoms, similar three-player xiangqi variants emerged utilizing half-boards but with different center-connecting geometries and corresponding rules. One of these is Game of the Three Friends ( Chinese : 三友棋 , Pinyin : Sān-yǒu-qí ; also called Sanyou Qi or Three Friends Chess) invented by Zheng Jinde ...