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Badminton was known in ancient times; an early form of the sport was played in ancient Greece and Egypt. In Japan, the related game Hanetsuki was played as early as the 16th century. In the west, badminton came from a game called battledore and shuttlecock, in which two or more players keep a feathered shuttlecock in the air with small racquets.
Despite its name, the game is not a variation of checkers, nor did it originate in China or any part of Asia (whereas the game è±¡æ£ xiangqi, or Chinese chess, is from China). The game was invented in Germany in 1892 under the name Stern-Halma as a variation of the older American game Halma.