I was never very good, but I was in the chess club at school when I was little, and I can remember the basic moves you're allowed to make (and not make lol).
I'm pretty much exactly the same as you! Supposedly I was good when I was in the chess club but I pretty much feel like I didn't know what I was doing back then. XD
Um... I know the ways each piece is supposed to move, and how to lay out the board. I don't know the various starting moves and such stuff, though. My bro might still remember from his brief stint in the chess club.
I think I remember how to play, but I can't remember any specific strategies anymore (and I only ever knew 1 or 2). Haven't played for yeeears, obviously XP
I know how to play chess, and last played it about 3 years ago at university (with friends, not competitively). I never learned any of the openigns or formal strategies for playing, and always did my own style which involved sending out the knights to generaly be as annoying as possible while trying to come up with a plan.
The Knight's tour is one of the few puzzles I've left to solve in Professor Layton and Pandor's Box. It also took me about a month of working at it off and on to solve the Eight Queen's puzzle in the first one (the smaller ones were easy as there's a nice pattern, but the full 8x8 was *hard*).
I don't think I actually spent that long on the puzzle, probably only a few hours in total. There were several instances of attacking it for 15 minutes, getting bored, and trying a different puzzle instead (and Professor Layton only lets you pause the game, it doesn't let you save a half-complete puzzle). I was tempted to write a program to solve it, and I may well do that for the Knight's Tour puzzle (or look it up, but that feels more cheating than writing a program myself).
Nope, didn't have to do that at University. I did write a route-solver for the London Underground, if that's any consolation.
To be honest, if I were to write a Knight's Tour solver just to run once for the 8x8 puzzle I'd write a brute-force "try every option" program and leave it to run for however long it took (probably not that long - modern computers have a scary amount of processing power).
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And does computer chess count?
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THIS WILL BECOME RELEVANT LATER YOU'LL SEE
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otherwise I'd have to
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I know how to play chess, and last played it about 3 years ago at university (with friends, not competitively). I never learned any of the openigns or formal strategies for playing, and always did my own style which involved sending out the knights to generaly be as annoying as possible while trying to come up with a plan.
I keep meaning to challenge people to a game.
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(not helped by all those years of Knight's Tour assignments.)
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I don't think I actually spent that long on the puzzle, probably only a few hours in total. There were several instances of attacking it for 15 minutes, getting bored, and trying a different puzzle instead (and Professor Layton only lets you pause the game, it doesn't let you save a half-complete puzzle). I was tempted to write a program to solve it, and I may well do that for the Knight's Tour puzzle (or look it up, but that feels more cheating than writing a program myself).
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Granted, I had to look it up too just to make sure I was doing it right while working on that large-size puzzle. ._.
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To be honest, if I were to write a Knight's Tour solver just to run once for the 8x8 puzzle I'd write a brute-force "try every option" program and leave it to run for however long it took (probably not that long - modern computers have a scary amount of processing power).