Thirty-six stratagems - the ancient Chinese military treatise. In a broader sense, a collection of implicit strategic system of indirect techniques and tactical moves, used to achieve the hidden goals, take advantage and seize the initiative.

This divination created in ancient China and has been used in military operations in civilian life rarely used.
Stratagem thinking refers to the characteristic features of Chinese civilization, it is an achievement of its philosophical and political thought. An important feature is the stratagem proschityvaemost situation, the reaction of the object and the result, that is, thinking several moves ahead.

Stratagem (ancient Greek - stratagem) - the behavior of an algorithm, calculated sequence of actions aimed at achieving the hidden aim or any problems with the obligatory account of the psychology of the object, its status, conditions and other features of the situation. This concept exists in the Chinese culture for at least three thousand years.