"You’ve got a great game, a noble game, before you."
- Captain Arthur Connolly, a British intelligence officer, in the early days of what came to be known as the Great Game; he was executed by a pro-Russian Central Asian Khan when trying to engage their support.

The Great Game, an obscure event in world history, overshadowed by talk of other events, full of vim and vigour, continues to remain irrelevant to a vast majority. There is a high possibility that nobody skimming through this might have heard of it, either.

Verily, this is an opportunity, an opportunity to enter into a world full of wars, of blood, of greed, of intrigue, of diplomacy, and of strategy.

The Great Game was, in a nutshell, the Cold War of the 1800s-on one corner, you had the reigning heavyweight champion, Great Britain, while on the other, you had the formidable Russian Empire. Except this time, the ‘’game’’, as it is referred to, was to be played about in the playground of Asia. This amusement of superpowers was concentrated primarily in the historically significant and bustling areas of the Indian Subcontinent, of Persia, of the mighty Afghanistan, and of Turkistan in Central Asia. While no major wars were fought, the silent fires that raged in the lands of Asia worked wonders to destabilize the native regions.

Now it is up to you, delegates, to play this game of cards. Play them right.