This took me 14:02 on the first try. Definitely got faster as time went on but I found myself getting stuck on a few squares for no good reason. Starting from the destination and working toward the source helped.
Ain't it funny how the knight moves?
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#42Nice challenge. Can someone help me understand why other posters want highlighting for visited squares?
Because they think you just have to visit all the squares in no particular order.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
They should highlight the target square in the board instead of only writing it in the "clock".
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#44I 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.
In any case, this is a variant of the "knight's tour."
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#45I 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.
A short note about how the coordinates work would also be helpful, or just highlight the target square, because not everyone knows chess notation by heart. I tried two different interpretations (both wrong) before finally resolving to google for it.
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#46For me the instructions are pretty clear: every square "right to left, top to bottom" - except don’t land anywhere the queen can take you, and don’t take the queen. (i.e. somehow move to the upper-right, then one to the left and so forth going through the rows and columns backards and down, like reading right to left down a page.)
I gave up after 4 minutes. It's really tough and I only got partway through the second row. I play OK chess (slightly above average on lichess) but it is a really tough visualization exercise.
for anyone who did it to completion, how long did it take? did you speed up by the end?
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#47Love it. Anyone found a strategy better than “choose a path that will get you there that has a square in the largest quadrant, and jump from there”?
I think this is basically the same strategy I stumbled onto. It feels binary in nature, like you're either on circuit or off circuit within the target areas, and there's only that one degree of freedom within the small quadrants. If off circuit it seems like you have to go to one of the larger quadrants to get on the right circuit again and hit the target.
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#49I wish it could keep track of where the knight has already been.
How does that help you get to the indicated square?
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#50Well that took me 28 minutes.
I love it.