Editing Chinese checkers (section)

==History and nomenclature==
[[File:Children. MacDonald Park Summer Camp BAnQ P48S1P07509.jpg|thumbnail|upright=0.80|left|Playing Hop Ching checkers, [[Montreal]], 1942]]
The game was invented in Germany in 1892 under the name "Stern-Halma" as a variation of the older American game [[Halma]].<ref name="Johns">Bernardo Johns, Stephanie; ''The Ethnic Almanac''. Doubleday Publishing (1981). {{ISBN|0-385-14143-2}}</ref> Like all Halma games, there is a similarity to [[Draughts|checkers]]. The {{lang|de|Stern}} (German for ''star'') refers to the board's star shape (in contrast to the square board used in Halma).

The name "Chinese checkers" originated in the United States as a marketing scheme by Bill and Jack Pressman in 1928. The [[Pressman Toy Corporation|Pressman company]]'s game was originally called "Hop Ching checkers".<ref name="EoPiTS137">Rodney P. Carlisle: Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society, Band 1, SAGE, 2009, p. 137.</ref>

The game is known as {{Transliteration|zh|tiaoqi}} ({{lang-zh|c=跳棋|p=tiàoqí|l=jump game}}) in Chinese. In Japan, the game has a variation called {{nihongo|"diamond game"|ダイヤモンドゲーム}} with slightly different rules.

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