📚 Yuanshen Haikua — a Qing-dynasty endgame manual
Red to move — and despite holding clearly heavier artillery (two chariots and two cannons against Black's one chariot and one cannon), the classical manual Uyên Thâm Hải Khoát (game 246) still concludes with a single word: draw. Black's block of four pawns makes up the difference: slow to advance, but harder and harder to uproot as the endgame nears. To win, Red must win before that pawn mass starts to speak. The name comes from the banquet of 206 BC, where Liu Bang rode in with exactly one hundred horsemen to feast amid Xiang Yu's four hundred thousand troops — and on the table, a jade token was raised three times as a signal. That brush with death is told in the anecdote below. On this board: can you break the draw, or will Black hold on the way that guest once held on to his life?
三度の玉の合図、しかし剣は落ちなかった――鴻門の宴
紀元前206年、劉邦はちょうど100騎で鴻門の宴に赴いた。そこには項羽が40万の兵で陣を敷いていた。宴席で謀士・范増は三度、玉の玦を掲げて合図した。「斬れ」と。やがて剣の舞が始まり、見守る者すべてが理解した。その刃は空気を狙っているのではない、と。劉邦はどうやって史上最も有名な宴席から生きて逃れたのか？ 『史記』（第7巻・項羽本紀）は細部まで記録する。前夜、項伯がひそかに張良へ警告していた。宴で范増は繰り返しまばたきし、玉の玦（玦――「決断／断絶」と同音）を掲げて項羽に行動を促したが、項羽は黙っていた。そこで范増は外へ出て項荘を呼び入れ、祝いの剣舞を披露させ、その舞のさなかに劉邦を刺そうとし…
Stories around this position — storytelling, not part of the engine-verified content.
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