Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage 三顾草庐

📖 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 a mere five pieces — two chariots, one cannon, one pawn — already deep inside enemy territory, while Black holds twelve pieces, four pawns among them, and a full advisor–elephant guard around the palace. For all that disparity, Tâm Võ Tàn Biên still concludes: draw. The name recalls “Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage” — Liu Bei calling three times at the hut of Zhuge Liang. Unusually, Zhuge Liang himself recorded the episode in his own words in the Xuất Sư Biểu of 227, quoted in the anecdote below. Patience that knocks three times at a cottage door, and patience that holds a losing-looking position — the two stories meet in a single virtue. As Red, would you have the patience to see this one through?

📖 Anecdotes

草庵への三度の訪問――諸葛亮自身の言葉で

一人の軍閥が、貧しい学者の草庵を三度訪れ、二度は留守か昼寝に阻まれました。三度目に彼は待ちました。ついに現れた学者は、帝国の運命を塗り替えることになります。伝説には珍しく、これは学者自身が書き残したものです。彼は正確に何と言ったのでしょうか? 227年の有名な『出師表』の中で、諸葛亮は劉備について、先帝は「三度私を草庵に訪ね、天下の情勢について私に相談した」と書きました。英雄自身の証言であり、君主への公式文書の中の言葉です。三国時代が提供する資料として、これほど確かなものはほとんどありません。 対抗する語りが『魏略』に残り、『三国志』の注釈に引用されています。そこでは諸葛亮が劉備を訪ねたの…

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Stories around this position — storytelling, not part of the engine-verified content.

Source
心武残编
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
Black forces
King, Advisor ×2, Elephant, Horse, Chariot ×2, Cannon, Pawn ×4
FEN
4k4/rr2a4/5a3/4p1RCR/2b6/9/4P4/6n2/3pp1p2/c4K3 w

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