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Form a graph, do a bfs.

- Anonymous May 09, 2012 | Flag Reply
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If the board is empty and there is only knight and opponent the answer minimum would be 1 and maximum would be 2...

1 when he can directly kill,

2 when he can't kill directly needs to make a move and then he can kill directly.

- Sairam May 09, 2012 | Flag Reply
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I assume this question means from starting positions. You can't directly kill if you know how a knight moves, plus there are pawns in the way.

- Nick May 09, 2012 | Flag
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I guess dynamic programming would solve this. The equation would be something like:

steps(curposition) = min for each legal new position k { steps(k) + 1 }

I do not know the running time of this as I am too lazy (or dumb) to calculate it. Please let me know if this is wrong.

- Aswin May 10, 2012 | Flag Reply


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