Six Campaigns from Mount Qi 六出祁山

📖 As recorded in the classical booksBook result: Draw淵深海闊

📚 Yuanshen Haikua — a Qing-dynasty endgame manual

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Red to move with two chariots against one — a visible edge in firepower. But Black is anything but outgunned: an extra knight, advisors and elephants screening the palace, and five pawns on each side drawn up like two armies facing off across a river. The classical manual Uyên Thâm Hải Khoát (game 5) concludes: draw. Red keeps pushing, Black keeps holding — a tug of war in which the attacker never quite finds the finishing blow. The name is the most famous "beautiful mistake" attached to Zhuge Liang: the histories record five personal campaigns against Wei (228–234), only two of them by way of Mount Qi — the "six" belongs to the novel and to tradition, as the anecdote below explains. After all those expeditions, still a drawn position: can you find the road that players old and new have left untravelled?

📖 Anecdotes

‘기산으로 여섯 번 출정’ — 역사는 다섯 번, 그 길로는 두 번만 센다

삼국을 좋아하는 사람이라면 누구나 그 말을 안다. 제갈량은 기산(祁山)에서 위나라를 향해 여섯 번 출정했다. 시와 연극과 관용구에 새겨진 말이다. 그런데 한 가지 문제가 있다. 기록으로 원정 횟수를 세어보면, 숫자도 산도 살아남지 않는다는 것이다. 무엇이 잘못된 것일까? 228년부터 234년까지 제갈량은 직접 다섯 번의 북벌을 이끌었지, 여섯 번이 아니었다. 그리고 실제로 기산을 경유한 것은 단 두 번뿐이다. 첫 번째는 228년의 원정으로 마속이 가정(街亭)에서 참패하며 끝났고, 두 번째는 231년의 원정으로 위나라 장수 장합이…

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Source
淵深海闊 第5局
Book result
Draw
Verification
📖 As recorded in the classical books
Side to move
Red to move
Difficulty
Hard
Red forces
King, Chariot ×2, Cannon, Pawn ×5
Black forces
King, Advisor, Elephant ×2, Horse, Chariot, Cannon, Pawn ×5
FEN
2b1k4/3naP3/b3c4/p1p3p2/7CR/8R/P1P3P1P/2r1p4/4p4/3K5 w
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