Phrase: the long game (long-term strategy)

[Dan Goncharoff]

My WAG is the "long game" comes from the card game whist, which has been
played in two forms, the Long Game and the Short Game, for at least 200
years.
 On Sep 29, 2014 11:17 AM, "W Brewer" <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I feel a contrast:  the long haul (arduous self-sacrifice), the long
> run (justice will prevail), the long term (sacrifice now, profit
> later), the long game (unfamiliar term:  cf. the great game?)
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