The game "Londoner Checkers", is based on the game "Chinese Checkers", which is a game invented after "Halma". The game rules are slightly different than the original Halma but also not far from it. The battle will be played with "Chinese Checkers" rules but not the exact same as Halma. Please check this page for its instruction. Wenn Sie auf Deutsch wechseln möchten, füllen Sie bitte stattdessen dieses Formular aus. 中文翻譯說明表格在此。

"Chinese checkers", originally known as Halma (Greek "jump"), was invented between 1883 and 1884 by George Howard Monks, an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School. The original board was square with 256 grids. The goal and rules of Halma are similar to the current Chinese checkers. Not long later someone changed it to a star-shaped chessboard, which was patented by a German company Ravensburger and called Stern-Halma. It became popular in the United States in the 1930s and changed the name of "Chinese Checkers". When this kind of chess was introduced to China and Hong Kong, it was called "marble / glass ball chess" (German "Murmel", Cantonese "波子"). In fact, Chinese Checkers did not originate in China.