Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:45:07 02/22/05
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On February 22, 2005 at 14:10:10, Tim Foden wrote: >On February 22, 2005 at 08:35:07, Andrew Wagner wrote: > >>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? > >Here's my attempt, although I did squidge the lines together a bit (20 lines) :) > >#include <stdio.h> >int main( int, char** ) { > for( int i = 0; i < 64; i++ ) { > for( int j = 0; j < 64; j++ ) { > if( i == j ) continue; > for( int cnt = 0, k = 0; k < 64; k++ ) { > if( k && (k & 7) == 0 ) printf( "/" ); > if( k == i || k == j ) { > if( cnt != 0 ) { printf( "%d", cnt ); cnt = 0; } > printf( k == i ? "N" : "n" ); > } else { > cnt++; > if( (k & 7) == 7 ) { printf( "%d", cnt ); cnt = 0; } > } > } > printf( " - - 0 1\n" ); > } > } > return 0; >} > >Cheers, Tim. Exactly the same, only completely different: #include<stdio.h> char q0??(9??)=??<'0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8'??>;int main(void )??<int q1,q2,q3,q4;for(q1=0;q1<64;q1++)??<for(q2=0;q2<64;q2++)??<if( q1==q2)continue;for(q4=0,q3=0;q3<64;q3++)??<if(q3&&(q3&7)==0)putchar( '/');if(q3==q1||q3==q2)??<if(q4!=0)??<putchar(q0??(q4??));q4=0;??> putchar(q3==q1?'N':'n');??>else??<q4++;if((q3&7)==7)??<putchar(q0??(q4 ??));q4=0;??>??>??>puts("\40\55\40\55\40\60\40\61");??>??>return 0;??>
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