Seven Stars: the classic xiangqi ending

A classical endgame composition from the 1801 manual One Hundred Variations, keyed from the 1916 English edition with its complete Diagram 1 apparatus: the drawn main line plus every printed variation, all checked move by move with the engine.

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1. The Grand Tournament (main line)61 moves

   The Seven Stars ending (七星聚會), the most celebrated of the classical xiangqi compositions. Position keyed from Kliene's 1916 English edition of Seven Stars, which follows the 1801 manual One Hundred Variations (百局象棋譜). Seven men per side; the seven pawns are said to trace the Big…

   Red opens with the cannon check, screened by the red pawn on f8. The branches at this first move are Kliene's Preliminary Movements: the other tries, each followed to its forced end.