What is "kriegsspiel"

Kriegsspiel \Kriegs"spiel`\, n. [G., fr. krieg war + spiel play.] A game of war, played for practice, on maps.
--Farrow.

Kriegsspiel (often spelled Kriegspiel in English) is a German word for "wargame". It may mean:

• Kriegspiel (chess), a chess variant of imperfect information
• Kriegsspiel (wargame), a 19th-century wargames training system of the Prussian army
• Le Jeu de la Guerre, a wargame developed by Guy Debord, discussed in his 1987 book
• "Kriegspiel", a song by Patrick Wolf from The Bachelor

Kriegsspiel (lit: "war game") was a system used for training officers in the Prussian and German armies. The first set of rules was created in 1812 and named Instructions for the Representation of Tactical Maneuvers under the Guise of a Wargame. It was originally produced and developed further by Lieutenant Georg Leopold von Reiswitz and his son Georg Heinrich Rudolf von Reiswitz of the Prussian Army.