“Xiangqi,” “Chinese Chess,” is from China, but “Chinese Checkers” was invented in Germany in 1892. The inventors gave it the name “Stern-Halma” as a variation of an older American ...

Today's Game of the Day is a board game classic: Chinese Checkers! Chinese Checkers, contrary to popular belief, was not invented in China, or, indeed, any part of Asia at all. It was actually ...

Chinese checkers, for example, translates very well to the computer screen, as do chess and checkers. Battling ships, ... Checkers is just one of 16 different board games available.