Win 2: checkmate after the palace is emptied (Black)

Atomic Xiangqi: twelve engine games

96 手

Black (10 million nodes) against Red (1 million). Red holds until 25.Cd5; then 28…Rxc5 takes a chariot and a cannon with one capture, 37.Rxf2 costs Red its own advisor to the blast, and from move 43 Red is lost. The finish is the unusual part: Black blows up both of its own advis…

Cd5: Red’s cannon steps into the open file. Black is better from here (-2.2).

Rxc5: one capture, two pieces. The chariot on c5 goes, and the cannon on d5 beside it goes in the blast.

Rxf2: Red takes the chariot, and the blast takes Red’s own advisor on e2 with it. A capture next to your own piece is a capture of it.

Pg8: the last mistake. Every line mates from here.

Ecxe8: Black’s elephant takes the horse on e8 and the blast removes both of Black’s own advisors. The general on e10 is not adjacent, so it survives, and the e-file is open.

Pdxd3: the soldier takes the advisor, and the elephant on e3 goes in the blast. Red’s palace is empty.

Hc3+: checkmate.