Binding Huang Zhong with Kindness 恩结黄忠

📖 As recorded in the classical booksBook result: Draw淵深海闊

📚 Yuanshen Haikua — a Qing-dynasty endgame manual

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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?

📖 Anecdotes

한 번 목숨을 살려주어 얻은 대장: 장사에서 맺어진 은혜의 빚

노장 황충의 말이 전투 도중 비틀거렸고, 그는 땅에 떨어졌다. 그의 목숨은 온전히 관우의 손에 달려 있었다. 관우는 앞으로 박차를 가하더니… 돌아서 말을 몰아 가며 한마디만 남겼다. "가서 말을 바꿔 타고 다시 와서 싸우자!" 그 한 번의 의리가 어떻게 장사를 결정지었을까? 《삼국지연의》(53회)에 따르면 209년 관우는 검객 500명을 이끌고 한선에게서 장사를 빼앗으러 갔고, 한선의 오른팔은 노장 황충이었다. 나이는 예순에 가깝고, 쏘면 빗나가지 않는 명궁이었다. 첫날 두 사람은 백여 합을 싸워도 승부를 가리지 못했다. 둘째…

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Source
淵深海闊 第80局
Book result
Draw
Verification
📖 As recorded in the classical books
Side to move
Red to move
Difficulty
Hard
Red forces
King, Horse, Chariot ×2, Cannon, Pawn ×3
Black forces
King, Advisor ×2, Elephant ×2, Chariot, Pawn ×3
FEN
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