📚 Lanke Shenji — a Ming-dynasty endgame manual
Red to move, and Lạn Kha Thần Cơ awards Red the win — but do not celebrate early: Red's palace stands bare, no advisor, no elephant, while Black keeps both elephants, two knights and more pieces overall. Red fields two chariots against one, plus knight, cannon and three pawns; one careless moment in the hunt and Red's own king becomes the prey. The position has not been machine-verified; the result follows the classical book. The name is the most humiliating moment of Cao Cao's life — as told in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (chapter 58, Tong Pass, 211): hunted down at full gallop by Ma Chao, Cao Cao had to cut off his legendary beard and throw away his red robe to escape. How the age's most feared hunter became the hunted is told below. On this board the roles are reversed: Red does the hunting. Can you finish the pursuit?
「長髭の男こそ曹操だ！」――伝説の髭は馬上で切り落とされた
生涯、深謀で他者を逃げ惑わせてきた曹操にも、自らの髭を切って逃げねばならない日があった。『三国志演義』第58回、西暦211年の潼関の戦い――それは馬超に追い詰められた日である。 馬超が戦場に叫んだ。「赤い袍の男こそ曹操だ！」曹操は即座に赤い袍を引き裂いて捨てた。馬超が再び叫んだ。「長髭の男こそ曹操だ！」曹操は剣を抜き、馬上で見事な長髭を切り短くした。三度目の叫びが上がった。「短髭の男こそ曹操だ！」彼は旗の端を裂いて顎全体を包んだ。 馬超が追いついて槍を突くと、曹操は大樹を回ってかわし、槍の穂先は幹に食い込んだ。曹洪が割って入り道を塞ぎ、曹操は間一髪で逃れた。戦いの後、彼は馬超の勇は呂布に匹敵し…
Stories around this position — storytelling, not part of the engine-verified content.
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