📚 Taolue Yuanji — a Ming-dynasty endgame manual
The material gap in this position is among the most extreme in the classical manuals: Red has just five pieces — one chariot, one cannon, two pawns — while Black keeps almost the entire army, thirteen pieces with both advisors and elephants, two knights and two chariots. Red to move, and the whole assignment is a single word: draw. Yet Thao Lược Nguyên Cơ (game 29) records exactly that word. Unverified by machine; the verdict is the ancients' own. The name — 'Jin and Song Make Peace' — recalls the notorious alliance of 1120, when Song joined the rising Jin to destroy Liao, only to have its capital sacked seven years later by that very 'ally'. Why that seemingly clever move became a catastrophe is told below. Here, outnumbered thirteen to five: how would you hold the draw with Red — or do you think the old book was too generous?
늑대를 불러 마당 지키는 개를 죽이다: 금·송 동맹과 '영리한 수'의 대가
1120년, 송(宋)은 북쪽의 백년 숙적 요(遼)를 함께 멸망시키자며 떠오르는 금(金)과 동맹을 맺었다. 1125년, 요는 실제로 멸망했다. 그리고 불과 2년 뒤, 송 자신의 수도는… 동맹군의 손에 초토화됐고, 황제 두 명이 북쪽으로 끌려갔다. 그 동맹은 어느 수에서 잘못됐을까? 이는 실제 역사로, 양 왕조 모두의 정사에 기록돼 있다. 1118/19년부터 양국의 사신이 발해를 오가며 협상했다(그래서 '바다에서 맺은 동맹', 해상지맹이라 한다). 1120년 동맹이 정식 체결됐다. 금은 북쪽에서, 송은 남쪽에서 요를 공격하고, 금은…
Stories around this position — storytelling, not part of the engine-verified content.
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