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Subject: Chess programming puzzle

Author: Andrew Wagner

Date: 05:35:07 02/22/05


Hi all.
I got sidetracked this morning by an interesting chess programming problem. It
took me a couple hours, but I think I have a working algorithm -- haven't tested
yet though. Anyway, I got to wondering if others would approach it the same way.
So I thought I'd make a little competition of it. Post your code here, and I'll
pick the program I like best and shower praise and adulation on its author. If
people like this challenge, maybe I'll do one each month or something. Anyway,
here's the one I did this morning:
There are 64 x 63 = 4032 ways to put a black knight and white knoght both on a
chess board. Write a program -- from scratch -- to generate FENs for each of
these positions. The FENs should look something like: Nn6/8/8/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0
1.

I think my code will wind up weighing in at around 60-70 lines of C. Can you do
better?



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