📚 Yuanshen Haikua — a Qing-dynasty endgame manual
Red to move, and the task is to hold a draw against an army nearly twice the size. Black has two chariots, five pawns and an advisor and elephants guarding the palace; Red has a single chariot, two elephants and two pawns — but those two pawns have burrowed deep into Black's half, and Red's chariot can harass without pause. The classical manual Uyên Thâm Hải Khoát (game 329) concludes: draw. Not machine-verified; the result follows the book. The name marks the first encounter in the most famous tale of Zhuge Liang's southern campaign: in 225 he marched south, captured the chieftain Meng Huo — and released him. Why such a decisive commander released his prisoner again and again — seven times — before winning him over is told in the anecdote below. On this board: with Red's six pieces, can you hold the draw to the very end?
일곱 번 잡고 일곱 번 풀어주다: 제갈량은 왜 맹획을 죽이지 않았나?
225년, 제갈량은 남중의 반란을 진압하러 남쪽으로 진군했다. 추장 맹획은 생포됐다 — 그런데 풀려났다. 두 번째로 잡혔는데 — 또 풀려났다. 결단력으로 유명한 전략가가 왜 이렇게 알 수 없는 자비를 베풀었을까? 《삼국지연의》(87~90회)에 따르면 제갈량이 원한 것은 영토가 아니라 민심이었다. 풀어줄 때마다 그는 맹획에게 촉한의 진영과 군량, 군대를 직접 눈으로 보게 했고, 저항이 헛됨을 깨닫게 했다. 일곱 번째로 잡혔을 때 맹획은 외쳤다. "일곱 번 잡히고 일곱 번 풀려나다니, 이런 일은 일찍이 없었다!" 그리고 다시는…
Stories around this position — storytelling, not part of the engine-verified content.
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