How To Win at Chinese Checkers

Winning Tips for Chinese Checkers

Once you learn a few Chinese Checkers strategy tips, you’ll learn how to win at Chinese Checkers pretty quickly. Below are a few suggestions that can help you improve your Chinese Checkers game, by frustrating your opponent and picking your spots to vault your Checkers across the board at the right moment.

Remember to maintain an economy of motion. The fewer moves you can get a checker to a spot, the closer you are to defeating your Chinese Checkers opponent. The more moves you can force your opponent to use to move his or her pieces across the board, the more likely you are to win.

Jump Your Checkers From Starting Position

When you begin the game, open up a bridge to the center of the chinese checker board with your first move or two. Then start to open up jumping positions among your back checkers, allowing you to get your pieces out of the point of the star quicker than your opponent. You’ll eventually want your pieces in the back to jump out front, becoming the vanguard of your Chinese Checkers formation.

Close Your Ranks

When the chinese checkers of your opponent begin to approach your line of checkers, remember to close the ranks of your own checkers. This will keep your opponent from moving their pieces through the field of your own. Don’t initiate contact with the enemy, but wait for your opponent to approach you. Instead, move your pieces that are behind into a solid formation.

Play Chinese Checkers Defensively

Along those same lines, maintain your patience and know when to play defensively. It doesn’t help you to jump your checker ahead 2 jumps, if it opens up an opportunity for your opponent to move one of their checkers ahead three jumps. Sometimes, maintaining a defensive position and shoring up the form of your checker positions is better than sending a checker forward to be jumped.

Remember that every principle of moving your pieces of the board goes the same for your opponent, so try to frustrate their ability to use these principles.

Look For Multiple Jump Possibilities

Try to jump your checkers multiple times, if possible. One good strategy is to leave a buffer between the body of your checkers and an opponent, while keeping a two-deep wall of checkers to avoid similar jumps by your opponent. When you sense an opportunity to make several jumps at once, move the checker second in line and spring the trap on your opponent, jumping first your own checker, then the checkers of your opponent.

If you really want to be tricky, you can stack your checkers to where you jump two or more of your own before jumping an opponent checker, really catapulting forward.

Divide and Conquer

Remember to keep your checkers packed tightly together. Travel in packs. Don’t leave one of them behind, because this means it will take a long time to jump it across the board.

Move to the Back

When you get to the other side, try to move your checkers as far back as possible, hopefully into the point of the star. This gives your other checkers less distance to travel. It’s best to do this by jumping through your opponent’s pieces to do this. Remember, economy of movement is the key to winning in Chinese Checkers.

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