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Encyclopedia Britannica



HALMA (Greek for " jump ")

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 863 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
HALMA (Greek for " jump ") , a table game, a form of which was known to the ancient Greeks, played on a board divided into 256 squares with wooden men, resembling
chess
  pawns. In the two-handed game 19 men are employed on each side, coloured respectively black and
white
 ; in the four-handed each player has 13, the men being coloured
white
 , black, red and green. At the beginning of the game the men are
drawn
  up in triangular formation in the enclosures, or yards, diagonally opposite each other in the corners of the board. The
object
  of each player is to get all his men into his enemy's yard, the player winning who first accomplishes this. The moves are made alternately, the mode of progression being by a step, from one square to another immediately adjacent, or by a jump (whence the name), which is the
jumping
  of a man from a square in front of it into an empty square on the other side of it. This corresponds to
jumping
  in draughts, except that, in
halma
 , the hop may be in any direction, over friendly as well as hostile men, and the men jumped over are not taken but remain on the board.
In the four-handed game either each player plays for himself, or two adjacent players play against the other two.
See Card and Table
Games
 , by Professor
Hoffmann
  (London, 1903) .


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