I didn't read the instructions at first and was confused why it wouldn't let me take the queen
Ain't it funny how the knight moves?
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#22clicks help
ha ha I’m not doing that
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#23I wish it could keep track of where the knight has already been.
Yes I agree. They do have a square coordinate at the bottom which is the next square to go to following that will get you all the chess squares
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#24The 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) [1]: https://github.com/jairtrejo/knight-moves
why would I practice visualizing not-chess information about chess pieces, when I could visualize actual chess information?
The history of a pieces moves is irrelevant to chess, except in extreme corner cases of repetition.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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."
I'm on a phone, I think that's the difference.
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#26The 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…
Turns out you're supposed to do them one at a time, in order. Tracking the visited squares doesn't add much for that
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#27I 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.
Holy... is that what you're supposed to do?!? No wonder the bar wasn't growing even though I jumped to every possible square -.-
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#28The 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) [1]: https://github.com/jairtrejo/knight-moves
It is, because you need to get to the square that's indicated, not any random square.
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#29I feel like I wasted 18:40 seconds.
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#30I 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.
Wow. Thanks. Totally missed that.
Maybe throw a little highlight on the square on the board as well.