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I 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.
I mapped out the structure of the board as a graph of which squares you can get to from which other squares. It's surprisingly stringy without all the squares forbidden by the queen placement. https://i.imgur.com/8OuQcu8.png
It made a lot more sense after doing that, as I'm nowhere near proficient enough at chess to see the board and all its moves in my mind's eye.
I 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 -.-
As a teenager I had a chess lesson with Ben Finegold and I practiced this puzzle for weeks on a physical board. He also mentioned this riddle off hand which I had a ton of fun solving. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-about-a-nice-game-o...
That is fun! It's interesting, the solution is presented here[1], but I'm pretty sure it's wrong (off by 19) due to not taking into account the possibility for the pawn to move two squares on its first move. [1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-you-survive-this-de...
> Note: If you counted the pawn moving forward two squares with its initial move as distinct from its moving two individual squares, then there are 160 paths. Feeling generous, I gave full credit for either approach.
In case anyone else goes nuts trying to write a program for a knight's tour with the additional queen constraint from this game: you can't get to B7. Obvious if you actually look at the board.
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How does that help you get to the indicated square?
I didn't actually realize the goal of the game was to do it all in order! The help text just says "Move the knight to every square, right to left, top to bottom."
I 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.
They wouldn't have to write any instruction nor add letters and numbers around the board (they are missing) if they marked the goal square. Even after I read your instructions I equivocated where f8 is. I actually moved to f1, then realized that's a long time since I looked at a chess diagram.
A demonstration of how a little detail can ruin a project.
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Holy... is that what you're supposed to do?!? No wonder the bar wasn't growing even though I jumped to every possible square -.-
Judging by this thread every single person did the same thing and became equally frustrated (myself included).