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    The Game of the Generals is an educational war strategy game invented in 1970 in the Philippines. It simulates armies battling each other using logic, memory, and spatial skills. Each player controls 21 hidden pieces of different military ranks on a 9x8 board. Players take turns moving pieces or challenging opponents' adjacent pieces, with results determined secretly. The objective is to capture the opponent's flag piece or move one's own flag to the back row to win. It was created to optimize learning and can be played in 20-30 minutes with 2 players and a referee.

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    Game of THE Generals

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    The Game of the Generals is an educational war strategy game invented in 1970 in the Philippines. It simulates armies battling each other using logic, memory, and spatial skills. Each player controls 21 hidden pieces of different military ranks on a 9x8 board. Players take turns moving pieces or challenging opponents' adjacent pieces, with results determined secretly. The objective is to capture the opponent's flag piece or move one's own flag to the back row to win. It was created to optimize learning and can be played in 20-30 minutes with 2 players and a referee.

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    The Game of the Generals is an educational war strategy game invented in 1970 in the Philippines. It simulates armies battling each other using logic, memory, and spatial skills. Each player controls 21 hidden pieces of different military ranks on a 9x8 board. Players take turns moving pieces or challenging opponents' adjacent pieces, with results determined secretly. The objective is to capture the opponent's flag piece or move one's own flag to the back row to win. It was created to optimize learning and can be played in 20-30 minutes with 2 players and a referee.

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    Game of THE Generals

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    The Game of the Generals is an educational war strategy game invented in 1970 in the Philippines. It simulates armies battling each other using logic, memory, and spatial skills. Each player controls 21 hidden pieces of different military ranks on a 9x8 board. Players take turns moving pieces or challenging opponents' adjacent pieces, with results determined secretly. The objective is to capture the opponent's flag piece or move one's own flag to the back row to win. It was created to optimize learning and can be played in 20-30 minutes with 2 players and a referee.

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    GAME OF

    THE
    GENERALS
    OBJECTIVE
    The Game of the Generals, also known as GG or GOG or simply The Generals,
    is an educational war game that simulates armies at war trying to overpower,
    misinform, outflank, outmaneuver, and destroy each other. It optimizes using
    logic, memory, and spatial skills. It also simulates the “fog of war” because the
    identities of the opposing pieces are hidden from each player and can only be
    guessed at by their location, movements, or from the results of challenges. The
    game’s objective is to eliminate or capture the opponent’s Flag or to maneuver
    one’s Flag to the far edge of the board (the opposing back rank), subject to the
    following conditions:
    • The Flag, if challenged, is eliminated by any opposing piece, including
    the opposing and challenging Flag. If a player’s Flag is eliminated by a
    challenge, that player loses the game.
    • The Flag, if moved, must be revealed to the opponent. If a player moves
    the Flag to the opposing back rank, that player wins the game.
    • The Flag cannot be moved into a square where it can be challenged by
    an opposing piece on the next turn unless the opponent has no other
    pieces except the Flag.

    HISTORY
    The Game of the Generals was invented in the Philippines by Sofronio H. Pasola Jr. in
    1970. Its Filipino name is “Salpakan.” It can be played within twenty to thirty minutes.
    It is designed for two players, each controlling an army, and a neutral arbiter
    (sometimes called a referee or an adjutant) to decide the results of “challenges”
    between opposing playing pieces that have their identities hidden from the opponent.
    The Pasolas first tried the Game of the Generals on a chessboard. Even then, the pieces
    had no particular arrangement. There were no spies in the experimental game; but
    after Ronnie Pasola remembered the James Bond movies and Mata Hari, he added the
    Spies. Making the pieces hidden was the idea of the Pasolas after remembering card
    games. The Game of the Generals’ public introduction was on February 28, 1973. After
    the game was made, it angered many Filipino chess players thinking that Pasola was
    trying to denigrate or supplant chess.
    EQUIPMENT
    S
    The game is played on a rectangular board with 9 rows and 8
    columns, similar to a chessboard. Each player has 21 pieces,
    representing different ranks in the army. The pieces are flat and
    have a symbol or insignia that identifies their rank, but only the
    owner of the pieces can see them. The opponent only sees the
    blank side of the pieces. The pieces are placed on the first three
    rows of the board, in any arrangement the player chooses. The
    ranks and symbols of the pieces are as follows:
    MOVEMENTS

    Movements of each piece in the game


    Each piece can move one square per turn, horizontally or vertically, but not diagonally.
    The pieces cannot jump over or move through another piece, friend or foe. The only
    exception is the Spy, which can move one or two squares per turn, but still cannot jump
    over or move through another piece.
    A player can either move a piece or challenge an opposing piece that is adjacent to one of
    his or her own pieces. A challenge is an attempt to eliminate or capture an opposing piece
    by comparing their ranks. The arbiter is the one who announces the result of the challenge,
    based on the secret schedule. The possible outcomes of a challenge are:
    The challenging piece is higher in rank than the challenged piece. The challenged piece
    is eliminated and removed from the board. The challenging piece occupies the square
    vacated by the challenged piece.
    The challenging piece is lower in rank than the challenged piece. The challenging piece
    is eliminated and removed from the board. The challenged piece remains in its original
    square.
    The challenging piece is equal in rank to the challenged piece. Both pieces are eliminated
    and removed from the board. The square is left vacant.
    The challenged piece is the Flag. The Flag is eliminated and removed from the board. The
    challenging piece occupies the square vacated by the Flag. The player who loses the Flag
    loses the game.
    The challenged piece is the Spy and the challenging piece is the Private or the Sergeant.
    The Spy is eliminated and removed from the board. The challenging piece occupies the
    square vacated by the Spy.
    The challenged piece is the Spy and the challenging piece is any officer from 2nd
    Lieutenant to 5-Star General. The challenging piece is eliminated and removed from the
    board. The Spy remains in its original square.
    The challenged piece is the 5-Star General and the challenging piece is the Spy. The 5-
    Star General is eliminated and removed from the board. The Spy occupies the square
    vacated by the 5-Star General.
    HOW TO PLAY?
    The game is played by two players, each with a set of 21 pieces of the same color, either red or blue.
    The players also agree on a third person to act as the arbiter, who will have a copy of the secret
    schedule of the ranks of the pieces.

    The players secretly and randomly arrange their pieces on the first three rows of the board, facing
    them so that only they can see their ranks. The arbiter does not see the board or the pieces at any
    time during the game.

    The arbiter flips a coin to decide which player will make the first move. The players then alternate
    turns, either moving a piece or challenging an opposing piece. The arbiter listens to the moves and
    challenges announced by the players, and declares the results of the challenges according to the
    schedule.

    The game ends when one of the following conditions is met:

    One player captures the Flag of the other player by challenging it with any piece, except the 5-Star
    General. The player who captures the Flag wins the game.

    One player moves the Flag to the far edge of the board (the opposing back rank) and reveals it to the
    opponent. The player who moves the Flag wins the game.

    One player loses all movable pieces (all pieces except the Flag). The player who still has movable
    pieces wins the game.

    Both players agree to a draw, or the arbiter declares

    NOTABLE PLAYERS

    Miguel Malvar Joe Theismann

    Miguel Malvar

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