Die Geschichte der Dame

Checkers was founded in England in 1880, English name: Halma (meaning "jumping" in Greek), the original chessboard was square, with a total of 256 squares. At the beginning, the pieces were distributed in the four corners, with the goal of jumping to the opposite corner as quickly as possible. , the rules are similar to those of Chinese checkers. Soon someone changed it to a star-shaped chessboard, patented by a German company Ravensburger, called Stern-Halma. It became popular in the United States in the 1930s and changed the name of Chinese Checkers (Chinese Checkers). When this kind of chess piece came to China, it was called chess. In fact, checkers did not originate in China.