Overcoming the Block or Swap Move in Chinese Checkers

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Carlos Ramos Jr. coming to you on behalf Expert Village and today we're talking about the game of Chinese checkers. Now we've gone over everything in this game, a little bit more in detail about how to multiple jump which is the key of winning the game. Now there's been lots and lots of debates all over the world about this situation here, what to do when the opposing team is prevented from winning because the other team had a peg blocking that final move you know, you see right here you cant move you can't jump, they can't jump him, it's kind of a steal mate. Now there's several, several solutions to this, you can pick your own and go by that rule, make sure you talk about it before the game starts because the situation came arise. Technically it's perfectly legal to block, you can block, that person's not doing anything illegal but it's also stealing the game. Now eventually if this situation happens, these people probably will be over here as well. You can call this game a steal or a draw, start over from scratch or the team who has the go can do what's called a swap and that will end the game right there, so you could do what is called a swap, you can limit swaps, you can say well you can have one swap per game. That's what we do, we say you can get one swap per game for these types of situations. You pick your own rules, you can call it a draw or you can go with a swap, either way it works. "