Lin Moxuan is a court chess master. After winning half a point in a game against the emperor, he is falsely accused of deceiving the sovereign. Lin Moxuan is exiled three thousand li, his property confiscated, and he is banished to the northern desert. Lin Jingzhe and his brother are obsessed with chess, and use it to exact revenge. In their match, on move 182, Lin Moxuan plays a move called "leaning." It is like a flash of lightning in the dark, illuminating the entire board in an instant. The two great dragons, tangled together, are forcibly separated by this move. White lives, and even takes away three liberties from Black. The white stone is placed in the upper-left, where the Black and White dragons are entangled, a seemingly insignificant spot. Yet this single leaning move tears the two dragons apart, bringing White back from certain death and even biting back at Black. A brilliant move.
