The Three Heroes of Feng and Pei 丰沛三杰

📖 As recorded in the classical booksBook result: Draw心武残编

📚 Xinwu Canbian — a Ming-dynasty endgame manual

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Red to move with exactly four pieces: the king, one chariot, one cannon and one pawn. Black still has a chariot, a full pair of advisors in the palace, and five pawns — a small army. Anyone glancing at the board would mark Red as lost. Yet the classical manual Tâm Võ Tàn Biên (game 36) concludes: draw. Red's three fighting pieces — chariot, cannon, pawn — must combine flawlessly to hold that result. The 'three heroes' of the name are historical men: Zhang Liang, Xiao He and Han Xin, three great talents Liu Bang admitted he could not match in their own fields — yet knew how to employ, all three. That famous act of self-examination from 202 BC is recounted in the anecdote below. On this board, can Red's three pieces do what those three geniuses did — turn the whole situation around despite being so few?

📖 Anecdotes

'세 사람 모두 영웅이요, 나는 그들을 쓸 수 있다': 유방의 가장 유명한 자기 평가

기원전 202년 낙양 남궁의 연회에서 유방은 조정 전체에 감히 입 밖에 내기 힘든 질문을 던졌다. "왜 나는 천하를 얻었고, 항우는 잃었는가?" 신하들이 먼저 답한 뒤, 그는 자신의 답을 내놓았다 — 2천 년간 사람을 쓰는 법의 교훈이 될 만큼 겸허한 답이었다. 그는 어느 세 사람에게 자신이 미치지 못한다고 인정했을까? 《사기》(7권, 고조 본기)는 그의 말을 그대로 기록한다. 앞서 고기와 왕릉은 이렇게 답했다. 항우는 오만하고 타인을 업신여겼으며 공 있는 자를 해치고 재물을 아껴 상을 주지 않았다고. 유방은 말했다. "그대들은…

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Source
心武残编 第36局
Book result
Draw
Verification
📖 As recorded in the classical books
Side to move
Red to move
Difficulty
Medium
Red forces
King, Chariot, Cannon, Pawn
Black forces
King, Advisor ×2, Chariot, Pawn ×5
FEN
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