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Ain't it funny how the knight moves?

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Re: Ain't it funny how the knight moves?

#31

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 -.-

Judging by this thread every single person did the same thing and became equally frustrated (myself included).

Re: Ain't it funny how the knight moves?

#37

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.

Or just put a target on each goal square in turn.

Re: Ain't it funny how the knight moves?

#40
post #24

Earlier 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

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.

The history is irrelevant here as well, you just need to know the next goal, which is always indicated.
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