Chinese Checkers — Rules

Symmetric jumps, 2 players

Like classic, 2 players, but you may jump over any symmetric group of marbles on the line. Between the start hole and the landing hole the marbles must stand as a mirror image around the middle, there must be at least one marble, and the landing hole must be empty.

Examples with a marble on e9: over the pair f9, g9 side by side — to h9; over f9 and h9 with g9 empty between them — to i9; over a single g9 with f9 and h9 empty — also to i9, like a long jump. But over f9, g9 with h9 empty you may not land on i9: the group is not symmetric.

Chains work as usual. These are the fastest games of all the variants. Elo rating, with its own scale for the variants.