It is the first work to systematically summarize battle theory and practice in ancient China, which leads the reform direction of strategy and tactics in the cold weapon age.

The practice of operational art is then traced, from its inception by U. S. Grant during the American Civil War, to Soviet operational theory developed in the 1920's.

Tamaz Imnaishvili, a local journalist, has a theory that the game appeared as a commemoration to a battle that occurred in Shukhuti between the Ottoman and Russian empires in 1855.