The remaining players continue the game to establish second-, third-, fourth-, fifth-, and last-place finishers.

The name "Chinese checkers" originated in the United States as a marketing scheme by Bill and Jack Pressman in 1928.

[4] In the diagram, Blue might move the topmost piece one space diagonally forward as shown.

(In some instances a player may choose to stop the jumping sequence part way in order to impede the opponent's progress, or to align pieces for planned future moves.)

The remaining players usually continue play to determine second- and third-place finishers, etc.

A basic strategy is to create or find the longest hopping path that leads closest to home, or immediately into it.

Of equal importance are the players' strategies for emptying and filling their starting and home corners.

While the standard rules allow hopping over only a single adjacent occupied position at a time (as in checkers), this version of the game allows pieces to catapult over multiple adjacent occupied positions in a line when hopping.

A hop consists of jumping over a distant piece (friend or enemy) to a symmetrical position on the opposite side, in the same line of direction.

Therefore, in this variant, even more than in the standard version, it is sometimes strategically important to keep one's pieces bunched in order to prevent a long opposing hop.

In the capture variant, all sixty game pieces start out in the hexagonal field in the center of the gameboard.

The center position is left unoccupied, so pieces form a symmetric hexagonal pattern.

Diamond game (Japanese: ダイヤモンドゲーム) is a variant of Chinese checkers played in South Korea and Japan.

The aim of the game is to enter all one's pieces into the star corner on the opposite side of the board, before opponents do the same.

[12] In Yin and Yang, only two players compete and as in chess, Go, and Othello, only the black and the white marbles are used.

For more interesting play, at the start of the game, the triangle placement of the opponents' marbles does not have to be 180 degrees in opposition.