Game 20: Red mates on move 38
Fortress Xiangqi: twenty engine games
75 moves
Formerly the article’s game, kept for the finish: Red mates with the cannon to e4, firing up the e-file over its own horse on e5 while the soldier on f5 covers the general’s last square. 19 drops (Red 11, Black 8). No soldier crosses the river in this one, which is why the articl…