"The Great Game" (Also called the
Tournament of Shadows (,
Turniry Teney) in Russia) was the strategic economic and political rivalry and
conflict between the
British Empire and the
Russian Empire for supremacy in
Central Asia at the expense of Afghanistan, Persia and the Central Asian Khanates/Emirates. The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running approximately from the
Russo-Persian Treaty of 1813 to the
Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, in which nations like
Emirate of Bukhara fell. A less intensive phase followed the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, causing some trouble with Persia and Afghanistan until the mid 1920s.