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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aqfaridi:
2014-04-09 18:16:42
nice problem.. |
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bicky:
2013-06-07 05:36:49
dont know why i'm getting wrong ans??
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bicky:
2013-06-06 13:06:34
whats should be the ans for a1 a1???
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yehya ibraheem:
2013-03-14 15:44:01
what the meaning of runtime error?
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J.A.R.V.I.S.:
2013-02-16 18:46:49
Same as CCHESS except for the input format |
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Mostafa 36a2:
2012-12-20 10:15:25
Enjoy Solving Thanks :) Last edit: 2012-12-20 13:25:57 |
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Aditya Pande:
2012-11-26 09:47:55
also try http://www.spoj.pl/problems/NAKANJC/ Last edit: 2012-11-26 19:47:16 |
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 |