📚 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?
홍문연: 세 번 치켜든 옥결(玉玦) 신호, 그러나 검은 끝내 떨어지지 않았다
기원전 206년, 유방은 정확히 기병 100기를 이끌고 홍문연에 도착했다 — 항우가 40만 대군과 함께 진을 치고 있는 곳이었다. 연회석에서 모사 범증은 세 번 옥결을 치켜들며 신호했다. '쳐라.' 이어 검무가 시작됐고, 지켜보던 모두가 그 칼날이 허공을 향한 것이 아님을 알았다. 유방은 어떻게 역사상 가장 유명한 연회에서 살아서 빠져나왔을까? 《사기》(7권, 항우 본기)는 모든 세부 사항을 기록한다. 전날 밤 항백이 몰래 장량에게 경고했다. 연회에서 범증은 거듭 눈짓하며 옥결(玦 — '결단하다/끊다'와 동음)을 치켜들어…
Stories around this position — storytelling, not part of the engine-verified content.
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