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).

knight

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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swarna1214: 2021-03-31 07:58:11

I am getting tle again and again. Can someone please help me to fix the issue?

[NG]: Don't post any sources or links to it here, use forum for review or debug. BTW. your code is completely unreadable.

Last edit: 2021-04-01 08:43:02
om_37: 2021-02-05 14:38:50

AC in one go..very nice problem for learning

tinedis740: 2021-01-31 22:15:05

I this this problem only allows C and Cpp.
Can some one please check why python3 is not accepted, with multiple WA's

sma5nico: 2020-12-21 15:57:46

Great problem!

Last edit: 2020-12-23 03:30:47
tarun_28: 2020-10-06 23:00:37

BFS with queue of pairs;)

shubhamnitt: 2020-10-03 22:51:02

int dx[]={2,2,-2,-2,1,1,-1,-1};
int dy[]={-1,1,1,-1,2,-2,2,-2};
take help of this array for traversing, if source and destination are same print 0.

fighter_17: 2020-09-17 10:57:22

@tj2972001

omar101: 2020-08-25 22:31:30

if you are getting TLE try fixing the same cell test case like :
1
a1 a1
ans: 0

tj2972001: 2020-08-19 08:05:01

AC in one go. Easy path finding

jrseinc: 2020-08-13 13:48:17

I used BFS to solve this question. Hints for beginners:
1. Convert the start[0] and end[0] to respective integer value by use ASCII table.
2. Maintain a depth level for bfs and when the knight reaches the desired end point return the depth.


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