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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.
How is B7 more noteworthy than anywhere else that is under attack from the queen?
The 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
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 -.-
clicks help ha ha I’m not doing that
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.
another hidden UX: clicking a square will move the knight there (if valid move). do not have to drag and drop.
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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."
Except, it's not accurate. It says "move the knight to every square" but the game is actually "move the knight to the next square specified".
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
Same but with the original board as part of the visualization, and with different parts of the structure highlighted: https://ibb.co/JFY3jm4 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.
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I'm confused. What "same thing" did everyone try? The instructions in the help section in the game seemed perfectly clear?
No, they say to move in every place, while you're expected to to move to a specific place in every step. f8 is the first for me, but I did not understand that was supposed to be the target, since it seems arbitrary.
Here is a video of me solving the puzzle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrCxZkZDskc