📚 Yuanshen Haikua — a Qing-dynasty endgame manual
Red to move with clearly heavier firepower: two chariots, a cannon, a knight and three pawns. Black has only one chariot, but compensates with an intact advisor–elephant pair around the palace and three pawns holding the line. The classical manual Uyên Thâm Hải Khoát (game 80) concludes: draw — Red's strength strikes a soft wall, powerful yet never quite decisive. The position has not been machine-verified. The name recalls a famous debt of gratitude at Changsha: mid-battle, the veteran Huang Zhong's horse stumbled, and the man who could have taken his life at arm's length turned his own horse away, leaving just one sentence behind. That chivalrous exchange — and how it won over a great general — is told in the anecdote below. On this board, can you break through that advisor–elephant wall and overturn the draw?
一度助けられ、大将を得た――長沙における恩義の借り
老将・黄忠の馬が戦いのさなかにつまずき、彼は地面に落ちた。命は完全に関羽の手の中にあった。関羽は拍車をかけ……そして馬首を返して去った。一言だけ残して。「馬を替えてこい。戻って戦い直そう！」その一つの武士の情けが、どう長沙の運命を決めたのか？ 『三国志演義』（第53回）によれば、209年、関羽は500人の刀兵を率いて韓玄から長沙を奪いに来た。その右腕が、60歳近くの老将で百発百中の弓の名手・黄忠だった。初日、二人は百合あまり打ち合って決着がつかなかった。二日目に起きたのが上記の「助命」である。三日目、韓玄は黄忠に弓を使うよう強いた。恩を覚えていた老将は、関羽の兜の飾り羽根だけを射ち落とし、人…
Stories around this position — storytelling, not part of the engine-verified content.
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