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A puzzle related to chess, a two-player board game with white and black pieces of varying ranks.
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The Toroidal Chessboard!
We can do it with
Can we do it with less pieces?
Here is some code to build and check states
So let's first check my suggestion works, adding one piece at a time...
Now let's check for p …
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Cover an unusual board with minimum chess rooks
Here is a solution with
I don't think less can be possible since
Update
Here is code to search for solutions
- it is not generalised to any size, I just hard-coded the "rows" (horizontals, diag …
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The Knight and the Maze
Very late to see this lovely puzzle, but I thought I'd post since
Python code:
MAZE_TEXT = '''
###########.##.#....#....#.........#...#..
.............#.#.#.....#.........#...#...#
.############.. …
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Rook River (Chess Sliding Puzzle)
Using Dr Xorile's answer as a base here is an improved solution:
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Pool of Pawns (Chess Sliding Puzzle)
I have a solution that takes
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Discrete Peaceful Encampments: Player 4 has entered the game!
While I feel it could be, this may not be optimal. However it is, at least, an upper bound...
I first note that it must be possible with:
Like so (the green shading shows the locations under att …