Two Horses Vie to Be First 双马争先
✓ Engine-verifiedBook result: Red winsMate in 12爛柯神機
📚 Lanke Shenji — a Ming-dynasty endgame manual
A xiangqi study from 爛柯神機（无局号）. Red to move to move — Red forces: King, Horse ×2, Chariot ×2, Pawn; Black forces: King, Advisor ×2, Chariot, Cannon, Pawn ×5. the classical books record: Red wins. Engine-verified — the winning side mates in 12 along the main line below.
✓ Engine-verified — The Fairy-Stockfish engine (NNUE) confirms Red checkmates in 12 moves — the main line was checked move by move, every move legal. Date checked: 2026-11-03.
- Source
- 爛柯神機（无局号）
- Book result
- Red wins
- Verification
- ✓ Engine-verified
- Side to move
- Red to move
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Red forces
- King, Horse ×2, Chariot ×2, Pawn
- Black forces
- King, Advisor ×2, Chariot, Cannon, Pawn ×5
- FEN
3a5/4a4/1N3k3/1Np1p4/9/9/6P1R/9/3p1pp2/r1c1K3R w- Transcribed from
- GitHub weiyinfu/xqp: 残局/烂柯神机/双马争先 红胜.xqfGitHub · liudada1980/canju12
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- 1.Red Chariot 8,6→8,2Black King 5,2→5,1
- 2.Red Chariot 8,2→8,1Black King 5,1→5,0
- 3.Red Chariot 8,1→8,0Black King 5,0→5,1
- 4.Red Chariot 8,9→8,1Black King 5,1→5,2
- 5.Red Chariot 8,0→5,0Black Advisor 4,1→5,0
- 6.Red Horse 1,2→3,1Black King 5,2→4,2
- 7.Red Horse 3,1→2,3Black King 4,2→5,2
- 8.Red Horse 2,3→3,1Black King 5,2→4,2
- 9.Red Horse 3,1→5,0Black King 4,2→5,2
- 10.Red Chariot 8,1→8,2Black King 5,2→5,1
- 11.Red Horse 1,3→3,2Black King 5,1→5,0
- 12.Red Chariot 8,2→8,0