![]() ![]() Two players can take part, with 19 pieces each, starting in the larger marked areas in opposite corners of the board.ģ. The corners are marked out to aid placement of the pieces, as shown in the diagram.Ģ. ![]() Halma is played on a square board with sixteen rows of sixteen squares. As the game is neither a variant of checkers nor is it Chinese, this is a fine example of the irony of commercial marketing! In the United States this game became Chinese checkers. This had a star-shaped board, rather than the square board of halma, but the rules were largely unchanged. In 1892 another variant was published in Germany, called Stern-Halma. In 1948 a variant called grasshopper was published, allowing play with a standard draughts set. An 18th century gaming board marked out like a halma board suggests it may have earlier origins, but it was not until the 1880s that it was published and came to the attention of the wider world. The game of halma, whose name means "jump" in Greek, is an entertaining product of the Victorian era. History of Halma, Grasshopper and Chinese Checkers For each game there is an entertaining history, full rules, and a discussion of strategy, all in more detail than you'll see on this site. That volume, available as a hardback or paperback, covers twelve games in depth. This game is featured in A Book of Historic Board Games, by Damian Gareth Walker. Featured in A Book of Historic Board Games Pieces may jump over each other to speed up their progress, though there are no captures in the game. The object of the game is to get your pieces to the opposite corner of the board before your opponent(s) can do the same. ![]()
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