How to get it to C8? Gah!
from e7?
Ain't it funny how the knight moves?
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#12I love the amount of chess nerds on Hacker News. If anyone is in the East Bay of SF and likes chess, I run a chess club in Walnut Creek, hit me up!
Re: Ain't it funny how the knight moves?
#13Hmm, a weird version of a Knight's Tour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%27s_tour
It seems like in this version / webpage, you're allowed to revisit squares however. It'd be nice if it highlighted what squares "Counted", because the words are quite ambiguous. A graphical representation of what is being counted / not counted would be very helpful.
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EDIT: Ah, I got it. The location on the left is the next spot you're supposed to go to. The puzzle is quite easy once I understood the interface.
The interface needs a "Next square: h5" or something. I really didn't get it for the longest time.
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#14I wish it could keep track of where the knight has already been.
That and some explanatory text as to what the game actually is. My first thought was to try to capture the queen.
It has text now? "Move the knight to every square, right to left, top to bottom. Don’t land anywhere the queen can take you, and don’t take the queen."
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#15The fact that it doesn't highlight where you've moved already makes it no fun. Edit: the directions weren't super clear. I see that you're actually supposed to go to every square in a specific order (first G8, then F8, E8, etc), not just visit them all in any order. That means you have to do a bunch of laborious trips around the queen to go to certain squares since you won't have enough room to maneuver directly ther…
I agree, but I wonder if it's on purpose.
I found the repo[1] and it's very small readme says it's a "Chess visualization exercise"
So I'm wondering if it's an extreme exercise in memorization to help you visualize games better.
(I'm just talking out my butt here, I know nothing about chess puzzles)
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#16I love the amount of chess nerds on Hacker News. If anyone is in the East Bay of SF and likes chess, I run a chess club in Walnut Creek, hit me up!
I'm in the East Bay, but just a little bit too far West for that to work out for me. :(
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#17The play on the Seger lyrics "night moves" with a chess knight was done earlier in an old ytmnd I remember
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#18Re: Ain't it funny how the knight moves?
#19I think the instructions should be:
Move to the square indicated below the board without moving to a square the queen can capture and without capturing the queen. Once accomplished a new square will be indicated. Repeat until all possible squares are done.