📚 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?
팔선이 바다를 건너다: 구름을 타지 않고, 각자 보물을 물에 던지다
여덟 신선이 드넓은 동해 앞에 섰지만, 아무도 평범하게 구름을 타고 건너려 하지 않았다. 여동빈이 흥에 겨워 제안했다. 각자 자기 보물을 물에 던져 그 위에 타고 건너자고 — 누가 가장 뛰어난지 보자면서! 여덟 신선은 철괴리, 한종리, 장과로, 여동빈, 하선고, 남채화, 한상자, 조국구였다. 신선들의 잔치에서 돌아오던 길에 동해를 건너게 됐다. 철괴리의 철지팡이와 조롱박이 내려가고, 한종리는 파초선으로 파도를 부채질했으며, 장과로는 어고와 종이 나귀를 던졌다. 하선고는 연꽃을, 한상자는 피리를, 조국구는 옥 박자를 던지자 바다…
Stories around this position — storytelling, not part of the engine-verified content.
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