See also:

• HALMA (Greek for " jump ")

HALMA (See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek for " jump ")  , a table See also:

• GAME

game, a See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of which was known to the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient Greeks, played on a See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board divided into 256 squares with wooden men, resembling See also:

• CHESS

chess pawns . In the two-handed game 19 men are employed on each See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side, coloured respectively See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black and See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white; in the four-handed each player has 13, the men being coloured white, black, red and See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

green . At the beginning of the game the men are See also:

• DRAWN

drawn up in triangular formation in the enclosures, or yards, diagonally opposite each other in the corners of the board . The See also:

• OBJECT

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 See also:

• JUMPING

jumping of a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man from a square in front of it into an empty square on the other side of it . This corresponds to jumping in See also:

• DRAUGHTS (from AS. dragan, to draw)

draughts, except that, in See also:

• HALMA (Greek for " jump ")

halma, the See also:

• HOP (Ger. Hopfen, Fr. houblon)

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 See also:

• PLAY

play against the other two . See Card and Table See also:

• GAMES, CLASSICAL

Games, by See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

Professor See also:

• HOFFMANN, AUGUST HEINRICH (1798–1874)
• HOFFMANN, ERNST THEODOR WILHELM (1776-1822)
• HOFFMANN, JOHANN JOSEPH (1805-1878)

Hoffmann (See also:

• LONDON

London, 1903) .