Elegant Pastime Manual No. 190 · Riding the Wind to Fan the Fire

Nine records whose printed line does not hold

15 moves

适情雅趣 (1570), 第190局 乘风吹火. The record claims mate by continuous checks in 8 moves, and the printed line does mate. It is not forced: at move 3 the defence has e10e9, which the record does not give, and after it there is no continuous-check mate within six moves of the recorded leng…