Introduction

The game of constant duplicity most resembles the power dynamic that existed in the scheming world of the old aristocratic court. Courtiers would work silently and secretly against any among them who used force. While appearing the very paragon of elegance, they had to outwit and thwart their own opponents in the subtlest of ways. The successful courtier learned overtime to make all his moves indirect. If he stabbed an opponent in the back, it was with a velvet glove on his hand and the sweetest of smiles on his face.