At Ease, Awaiting the Exhausted Enemy 以逸待劳

📖 As recorded in the classical booksBook result: Draw江湖百局秘谱

📚 Jianghu Baiju Mipu — one hundred selected street (jianghu) positions, Qing dynasty

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This position defies instinct: Red has far more pieces — an advisor, an elephant, a knight, a chariot and two cannons — against Black's chariot, cannon and three pawns. Red moves first, yet Giang Hồ Bách Cục Bí Phổ (game 32) concludes only: draw. The reason sits in the name itself: 'At Ease, Awaiting the Exhausted Enemy'. Black's three pawns are deep in Red's half, each Black piece posted ready; the more impatient Red's big army grows, the more it exposes itself. The name recalls the stratagem's classic exemplar: old general Wang Jian marched 600,000 men to the Chu border, then… dug in, ate well and slept for a year, waiting for the Chu army to exhaust itself. That story, and its lesson in patience, is told below. On the board: holding the bigger army, can you breach Black's 'fortress' — or will impatience cost you the draw?

📖 Anecdotes

60만 대군이 국경에 진을 치고 — 1년 가까이 먹고 마시며 돌던지기 시합을 했다

60만 대군이 적국 국경에 도착해 보루를 쌓고 면전패를 내건 뒤, 고기를 먹고 술을 마시며 돌던지기와 멀리뛰기 시합으로 1년 가까이 보냈다. 노장 왕전이 초나라를 멸망시킨 방식이자, ‘지친 적을 편안히 기다린다’는 계책의 모범담이다. 그 전에, 기원전 224년 젊은 장수 이신은 20만이면 초를 멸할 수 있다고 큰소리쳤다가 명장 항연에게 기습당해 대패했다. 시황제는 은퇴한 왕전을 직접 찾아가 달래야 했다. 왕전은 값을 매겼다. 정확히 60만, 한 명이라도 적으면 싸우지 않겠다고 했다. 초의 국경에서 그는 싸우지 않았다. 초군이 매일…

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Source
江湖百局秘谱 第32局
Book result
Draw
Verification
📖 As recorded in the classical books
Side to move
Red to move
Difficulty
Hard
Red forces
King, Advisor, Elephant, Horse, Chariot, Cannon ×2, Pawn
Black forces
King, Chariot, Cannon, Pawn ×3
FEN
3k5/4P4/3r5/6C2/6C2/6R2/4c4/1p2B4/1p2Ap3/4KN3 w
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