The Shortest Knight's Path
Sofi found a chess set in the supply closet on the robots' ship. She has decided to learn how to play the game of chess starts by attempting to understand how the knight moves.
Chess is played on a square board of eight rows (called ranks and denoted with numbers 1 to 8) and eight columns (called files and denoted with letters a to h) of squares.
The knight moves to any of the closest squares that are not on the same rank, file, or diagonal, thus, the move forms an "L"-shape: two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square vertically.
You are given the start and end squares as chess coordinates separated by a hyphen. You should find the length of the shortest path for the knight from one point to another on the chessboard.
You can learn more about chess here on Wikipedia.
Input: Squares coordinates as a string.
Output: The number of moves in the shortest path the knight can take as an integer.
Example:
checkio("b1-d5") == 2, "First" checkio("a6-b8") == 1, "Second" checkio("h1-g2") == 4, "Third" checkio("h8-d7") == 3, "Fourth" checkio("a1-h8") == 6, "Fifth"
How it is used: Let's think about chess and how we can use pathfinding and computer science to play this awesome game. The game structure and nature of chess is related to several branches of mathematics. Many combinatorial and topological problems connected to chess have been known for hundreds of years.
Precondition: An input string satisfies regexp "[a-h][1-8]-[a-h][1-8]".
start_cell != end_cell
CheckiO Extensions allow you to use local files to solve missions. More info in a blog post.
In order to install CheckiO client you'll need installed Python (version at least 3.8)
Install CheckiO Client first:
pip3 install checkio_client
Configure your tool
checkio --domain=py config --key=
Sync solutions into your local folder
checkio sync
(in beta testing) Launch local server so your browser can use it and sync solution between local file end extension on the fly. (doesn't work for safari)
checkio serv -d
Alternatevly, you can install Chrome extension or FF addon
checkio install-plugin
checkio install-plugin --ff
checkio install-plugin --chromium
Read more here about other functionality that the checkio client provides. Feel free to submit an issue in case of any difficulties.
Welcome to Pair Programming! Engage in real-time collaboration on coding projects by starting a session and sharing the provided unique URL with friends or colleagues. This feature is perfect for joint project development, debugging, or learning new skills together. Simply click 'Start Session' to begin your collaborative coding journey!
You are trying to join a pair programming session that has not started yet.
Please wait for the session creator to join.
It looks like the creator of the pair programming session closed the editor window.
It might happen accidentally, so that you can wait for reconnection.