Oriental-style Chinese Checkers
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This Chinese Checkers board is certainly unusual. We should clarify that
Chinese Checkers is NOT a chinese game but this board none-the-less comes
in a classical antique-effect Chinese style.
Although not high quality, the board is attractively made from a robust red-coloured wood with a lid that serves to keep the marbles from getting lost. The inside of the lid is faced with Chinese writing paper while the top has a decorative oriental-style picture featuring two Mandarin chaps playing the game (also shown).
The Chinese Checkers box measures 33cm across and about 4cm high. There are triangular pits around the edge that can be used to store the marbles when not in use.
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The Origin of Chinese Checkers
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.
It was later launched in the USA under the catchier name of Chinese Checkers, and this is the form that is most well-known today. J Pressman is believed to be the person who introduced the game to the USA during 1928 although several other manufacturers started to make it thereafter including Milton Bradley whom, an unconfirmed report has it, patented the game in 1941.
You can learn more about the History of Chinese Checkers from The Online Guide to Traditional Games.