Zhuan Zhu Assassinates King Liao 专诸刺僚

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

📚 Yuanshen Haikua — a Qing-dynasty endgame manual

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Red to move with exactly five pieces: the king, both elephants, one chariot — and a single pawn as its only other attacker. Black holds both advisors in the palace, a chariot and three pawns, clearly the larger force. Yet Uyên Thâm Hải Khoát (game 335) concludes: Red wins. A force this thin wins no war of attrition; it can only win with a single, precise strike — like a dagger waiting. The name is an assassination recorded in the histories: in 515 BC Zhuan Zhu took on killing King Liao of Wu — a king in three layers of armour, with halberd guards crowding the stairs. To reach the one spot he could strike from, Zhuan Zhu spent months on something no one expected: learning to grill fish. That detail — and the dagger hidden in the fish — is told below. On the board: five pieces, one chance — can you find Red's dagger stroke?

📖 Anecdotes

세 겹 갑옷을 입은 왕을 죽이려면, 자객은 먼저… 생선 굽는 법을 배워야 했다

창을 든 호위병이 계단을 가득 메우고 세 겹 갑옷을 입은 왕을 어떻게 죽일 것인가? 전용의 답은 이랬다. 몇 달 동안 생선 굽는 법을 배워, 그 생선을 누구도 대신할 수 없는 걸작으로 만드는 것이다. 기원전 515년, 오나라에서 광공자는 사촌인 요왕의 왕위를 노렸다. 오자서는 만인을 상대할 힘을 지닌 도살업자 전용을 추천했다. 요왕의 유일한 약점은 구운 생선에 대한 사랑이었다. 전용은 태호로 가서 명인에게 도제 수업을 받았다. 오직 왕의 연회에 생선을 직접 들고 들어갈 자격을 얻기 위해서였다. 연회는 밀실에서 열렸다. 요왕은 세…

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Source
淵深海闊 第335局
Book result
Red wins
Verification
📖 As recorded in the classical books
Side to move
Red to move
Difficulty
Medium
Red forces
King, Elephant ×2, Chariot, Pawn
Black forces
King, Advisor ×2, Chariot, Pawn ×3
FEN
9/4a4/3ak4/9/3P5/5RB2/3pp4/4B4/4rp3/3K5 w
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