NAKANJ - Minimum Knight moves !!!
Anjali and Nakul are good friends. They both had a quarrel recently while playing chess. Nakul wants to know the minimum number of moves a knight takes to reach from one square to another square of a chess board (8 × 8). Nakul is brilliant and he had already written a program to solve the problem. Nakul wants to know whether Anjali can do it. Anjali is very weak in programming. Help her to solve the problem.
A knight can move in the shape of an "L" in a chessboard - two squares either forward, backward, left, or right and then one square to its left or right. A knight move is valid if it moves as mentioned above and it is within the boundary of the chessboard (8 × 8).
Input
There are T test cases in total. The next T lines contain two strings (start and destination) separated by a space.
The strings start and destination will only contain two characters - First character is an alphabet between 'a' and 'h' (inclusive), Second character is a digit between '1' and '8' (inclusive) - (Quotes just for clarity).
To know the knight moves more clearly refer to the above figure.
Output
Print the minimum number of moves a knight takes to reach from start to destination in a separate line.
Constraints
1 <= T <= 4096
Example
Input: 3 a1 h8 a1 c2 h8 c3 Output: 6 1 4
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sidpandey:
2015-12-10 16:19:44
nice problem....accepted in the 2nd attempt....not bad :) |
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Deepak Kumar Singh:
2015-06-29 09:06:16
my first graph prblm......:)
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Deepak Gupta:
2014-09-17 12:01:10
Remember its 1-8 not 0-7 |
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Petar Bosnjak:
2014-05-12 23:13:01
take care of same squares as input...
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MxNINJA:
2014-04-30 15:11:28
finally accepted :3 |
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MxNINJA:
2014-03-22 15:15:01
it's hard to implement in JAVA :\
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Denys:
2013-12-31 00:06:32
Hi! I've get SIGSEGV on code submit. But! When I've tried to submit absolutely identically code in NAKANJC - everything was fine (AC). Could you please advise what is going wrong? May be compilation flags or..? g++ 4.3. I've absolutely no idea how it can be possible. |
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apsdehal:
2013-06-22 11:06:17
finally ac after soooooo many WAs', can't neglect smaller cases |
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bicky:
2013-06-14 04:16:09
@Admin,,how can my sol produce 0 for all test cases???........i've checked for all cases,its givin correct ansss...will u pls explain???? Last edit: 2013-06-14 04:16:39 |
Added by: | Nakul Krishna |
Date: | 2012-09-30 |
Time limit: | 1s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: ASM64 |
Resource: | Used for Code it - Vidyut 2012 - Amrita University |