How does the knight move?
Ain't it funny how the knight moves?
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#52.. When you just don't seem to have as much to lose? Strange how the night moves. With autumn closin' in.
We were gettin' our shaaaare....
My first thought as well. I wonder if it was an intentional reference.
Edit: Duh - it's right on the page "Inspired by Ben Finegold and Bob Seger."
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#53Love 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.
Same here. By the end, I was just reflexively moving back to the bottom right hand quarter, doing my 3 point turn, and then taking the circuit back to the destination.
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#54I 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.
They are written on the board..?
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#55I 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. :(
Berkeley Chess School does lots of casual tournaments (and classes): https://www.berkeleychessschool.org/programs/adult-chess-tou...
(One of my kids does a lot with BCS and loves them)
There's also a small sidewalk chess scene on Telegraph: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/01/30/community-chess-tele...
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
They are written on the board..?
Wow, I totally didn’t see those. Much too small and low-contrast, they are basically invisible on a smartphone.
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#57I 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.
> not everyone knows chess notation by heart.
I am going to agree, and hopefully clarify the point with a slightly different example. While I know how the notation works, I cannot figure out where a particular square is at a glance. This meant a lot of time squinting at the tiny, low contrast labels at the edges of the board. It made the problem a lot harder to solve since my concentration was constantly being disrupted by figuring out where the next destination is, rather than focusing upon the pattern of the knight's moves.
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#587:31, I found the UI kind of annoying. I kept accidentally selecting the text on the edge and then wasted time trying to deselect it.
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#59I 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.
Or just put a target on each goal square in turn.
Yeah I don't think text instructions are even necessary here if you make enough visual suggestions.
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#60I 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.
Honestly I read this the first time and thought you were making a suggestion as to how the game should be changed. I love the idea but the design and explanation is just awful.