File:Wang Tianyi 2023 national final critical position.png

The critical position of game 1 of the 2023 Chinese national men's individual championship final between Wang Tianyi (王天一, Red) and Meng Chen (孟辰, Black), shown after Red's 18.R3=2 (车三平二). Wang Tianyi has just offered an exchange of rooks and left his horse on the third file en prise; the diagram marks the en-prise horse and the two rooks facing each other on the second file, and labels the two candidate Black replies: 18...r8+2 (车8进2, the rook exchange) and 18...r8=7 (车8平7, the capture actually played).

Diagram generated for Xiangqipedia from the archived game score of the 2023 event 100003202, game 001086041F443E (广象网/01xq game archive; the same score is listed on 东萍象棋网). The position and the move sequence were verified with Pikafish at depth 20.

Attribution: position data from the Chinese-language game archive 广象网/01xq (event 100003202, game 001086041F443E) and 东萍象棋网; the decisive game is described in the Chinese Xiangqi Association's report. The diagram itself was generated for Xiangqipedia and reuses no third-party image.

Licence: original project-generated diagram. The underlying game score is a factual record from a Chinese-language archive and is not subject to copyright. Released under the project's default licence for generated diagrams (dedicated to the public domain, CC0 1.0).