📚 Baiju Xiangqi Pu Jingbian — the refined edition of the Hundred Games, Qing dynasty
Red to move, short of material: one chariot, one cannon, one elephant and two pawns, with no advisor screening the king. Black has more pieces, both advisors, and the larger pawn force. Yet Bách Cục Tượng Kỳ Phổ Tinh Biên (game 52) concludes: draw. Note the name: this is the REVISED version of the 'Eight Immortals Cross the Sea' — later hands reworked it; does the revision still preserve the original result? The position has not been machine-verified. The Eight Immortals would not ride the clouds across the Sea: each tossed a treasure into the water and crossed by his own magic. That folk legend is told below. Eight immortals, eight ways across; here, each of Red's few pieces must work its own small miracle to survive. Can you find their tricks — or has this revision spoiled the draw?
八仙、海を渡る――雲に乗る者はなく、各自が宝物を水へ投げ入れた
八人の仙人が広大な東海のほとりに立ち、誰一人として雲に乗るという平凡な渡り方をしようとしなかった。興に乗った呂洞賓が提案した。「各自の宝物を水に投げ入れ、それに乗って渡ろうではないか。誰が一番か、見ものだ！」 仙宴からの帰途、東海を渡ろうとしていた八人――鉄拐李、漢鍾離、張果老、呂洞賓、何仙姑、藍采和、韓湘子、曹国舅である。鉄拐李は鉄の松葉杖と瓢箪を投げ入れ、鍾離は芭蕉扇で波を扇ぎ、張果老は魚鼓と紙の驢馬を放ち、何仙姑は蓮を置き、韓湘子は笛を奏で、曹国舅は玉の拍板を投じた。海面は至る所で異なる仙術にきらめいた。 その騒ぎは竜宮にまで届いた。竜王の太子が藍采和の宝物を奪って手放さず、両者は東海全…
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