Chinese checkers / Halma Game

About the Game:
       This is an online board game that can be played online by two to six people. The objective of the game is to place one's pieces in the corner opposite their starting position of a pitted 6-pointed star by single moves or jumps over other pieces. There are 121 marble slots on a Chinese checker board. Gameplay is turn-based; each player starts in the one of the points of the star and attempts to move his pieces as far as possible in one turn. This can best be achieved by “hopping” over other adjacent pieces, versus a normal move of one peg in any direction. Making multiple jumps is the key to winning the game of Chinese chequers.

The name “Chinese checkers” is a misnomer: the game did not originate in China, as the name suggests, but was first called “Chinese” in the United States as a marketing scheme to make it more attractive to Westerners. It is invented in Germany in (1892) and it's an descendant from the game of Halma (1883).

How To Play :
       A guide to Play the board game Chinese Checkers / chequers (and it's ancestor Halma)

The object of the game is to move all 10 game pieces across the board and into the opponent's starting position. Each player puts his or her own colored marbles on one corner of the star and attempts to relocate them all to the opposite corner.

Players take turns moving one marble, either a single step or a chain of one or more hops. A step consists of moving a marble to an adjacent unoccupied space in any of the six directions. It is not mandatory to advance the marble by as many hops as is possible in the chain. In some instances a player may choose to stop the move part way through the chain to impede the opponent's progress or to align their marbles for future moves.

The pieces are never removed from the board. The pieces may be moved in and out of any points on the board. However, once a peg has reached the opposite triangle, it may not be moved out of the triangle - only within the triangle.

Halma is an online board game that can be played by two to six people.