Board Game Where You Move Pieces Into Opponent's Base: Chinese Checkers, Halma & More

The classic game matching "move pieces from your base into opponent's base" is Chinese Checkers (or its predecessor Halma). Checkers/Draughts is about capture, not base transfer. Here's the distinction.

🎯 Chinese Checkers (Sternhalma)

• Board: Star-shaped (6 points), 121 holes.
• Setup: Each player's 10 marbles start in one star point (their "base").
• Goal: Be first to move all 10 marbles into the opposite star point (opponent's starting base).
• Movement: Single step to adjacent hole OR hop over adjacent marbles (any color) in a straight line. Multiple hops per turn allowed. No capturing.
• Players: 2, 3, 4, or 6 (each with a home/destination pair).

🏛️ Halma (The Original, 1880s)

• Board: Square 16x16 (256 squares).
• Setup: 19 pieces in corner camp (2-player) or 13 pieces (4-player).
• Goal: Transfer all pieces to opposite corner camp.
• Movement: Orthogonal step or hop (like Checkers but orthogonal). No capture.
• Note: Chinese Checkers = Halma on a star board (marketed 1928 as "Hop Ching Checkers").

⚫ Checkers / English Draughts (Different Objective)

• Goal: Capture all opponent pieces or block them completely.
• Movement: Diagonal forward only (until Kinged). Capture by jumping diagonally over enemy.
• Kinging: Reaching far row = King (moves/captures backward).
• No "Base Transfer" — you start on your side, fight in middle, win by elimination.

🧩 Other "Base-to-Base" Games

• Ludo / Parcheesi / Sorry! / Trouble: Race pieces from Start (base) around board to Home (safe zone). Not opponent's base.
• Backgammon: Move checkers from start to home board, then bear off (remove). Opponent tries same opposite direction.
• Quoridor: Move pawn to opposite side; place walls to block.

If your game has a star board, marbles, and hopping to the opposite point — it's Chinese Checkers. If it's a square grid with orthogonal hops — it's Halma. If it's diagonal jumps capturing on an 8x8 board — it's Checkers.