Three Battles Against Lü Bu 三战吕布

📖 As recorded in the classical booksBook result: Draw韬略元机

📚 Taolue Yuanji — a Ming-dynasty endgame manual

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Five Red pieces — two chariots, a knight and a cannon — all bear down on a Black king guarded only by two advisors, a cannon and three pawns. Study the board and you would expect Black to fall within a few moves. Yet the classical manual Thao Lược Nguyên Cơ (game 24) concludes: draw. "One man holds off three" — Black's king here plays the besieged hero who simply will not fall, exactly like the figure in the position's name. That figure is Lü Bu at Hulao Pass in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Zhang Fei fought him fifty bouts without a decision, Guan Yu joined for thirty more, and finally Liu Bei himself had to enter the fray. The duel — an invention of the novel, absent from the histories — is retold in the anecdote below. On this board, can you achieve what the three sworn brothers could not, and break the draw?

📖 Anecdotes

세 형제 대 여포 — 일어나지 않은 결투

호뢰관에 당대 최강의 무장이 앉아 기다리고 있었다. 단 한 번의 일대일 싸움에서도 진 적 없는 여포였다. 그를 막으려면 영웅 한 명이 아니라 의형제 세 명이 함께 싸워야 했다. 이는 《연의》의 첫 번째 대결투인데, 왜 역사가들은 그런 일이 일어날 수 없었다고 말할까? 《삼국지연의》 제5회는 이를 완벽하게 연출한다. 장비가 먼저 달려 나가고, 관우가 합류하고, 마침내 유비 본인까지 나선다. 세 형제가 여포를 빙글빙글 감아 돌다가, 끝내 그가 빠져나가게 한다. 세대를 거친 독자들은 이를 세 형제가 세상에 자신을 알린 순간으로…

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Source
韬略元机 第24局
Book result
Draw
Verification
📖 As recorded in the classical books
Side to move
Red to move
Difficulty
Medium
Red forces
King, Horse, Chariot ×2, Cannon
Black forces
King, Advisor ×2, Cannon, Pawn ×3
FEN
3ak4/3Ra4/3RN4/9/6C2/9/9/3p5/4p1c2/3K1p3 w

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