📚 Yuanshen Haikua — a Qing-dynasty endgame manual
Count the pieces and few would believe this position can be drawn: Red has exactly four fighting pieces left — two chariots, one cannon, one pawn — while Black keeps almost the entire board: both advisors, both elephants, two knights, two chariots, two cannons and five pawns. Yet Uyên Thâm Hải Khoát records the verdict: draw. The name borrows the image of Bodhidharma crossing the Yangtze on a single reed — a Zen legend told in the anecdote below, where the patriarch answers Emperor Wu of Liang's proud question about merit with one famous, freezing sentence. Few against many, weak yet unbeaten: that is exactly the problem Red must solve here. Holding Red, how would you secure this draw?
갈대 하나로 강을 건너다: 달마와 '공덕이 전혀 없다'는 답
양(梁) 무제는 절을 짓고 불상을 주조하며 공양을 올린 규모가 당대에 비할 데 없던 군주였다. 그는 외국 승려를 자랑스러운 질문으로 맞았다. "짐이 이토록 많은 불사를 행했으니, 공덕이 얼마나 되겠소?" 돌아온 답은 양쯔강 수면만큼 차가웠다. "공덕이 전혀 없습니다." "성스러운 진리의 가장 높은 뜻은 무엇이오?" — "넓고 텅 비어, 성스러운 것은 없습니다." "짐 앞에 선 그대는 누구요?" — "모르겠습니다." 승려는 돌아서서 갈대 하나로 양쯔강을 건넜다. 그는 누구였을까? 먼저 분명히 할 것이 있다. 양 무제와의 문답,…
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