Chinese Checkers — Strategy

Many players and pairs

Three or more

Your opponents move between your moves, and a ladder built two moves ahead may vanish. Take jumps while they are there, and build rungs you will use right away.

Other players' marbles are rungs too. In a crowded centre a jump over three of their marbles is often better than any step.

Other points

Other points are all of them except your own and your goal, empty or taken: you may pass through them but not stop. A chain that ends in another player's point won't work — look for an end beyond it.

Pairs

Your partner heads for your point, and you for theirs. Bring your marbles out of home so as to free their goal, and don't block their way. A pair has finished only when both have: helping a partner who is behind matters more than finishing yourself.