Knight Moves
March 8, 2013
[ Today’s exercise comes from “Learn You a Haskell for Great Good” written by Miran Lipovača; the solution was written by Kyle Ilantzis. Guest authors are always welcome; if you are interested, contact me at the email address on the menu bar. By the way, that’s a fine place to start if you want to learn about Haskell. ]
This exercise comes from “Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!” by Miran Lipovača. Lipovača demonstrates a solution to find out if a single knight piece on a chessboard can reach a position in three moves. As an exercise he suggests that we try to find out if that knight can reach a position on the board in n moves and if so, what are the moves that the knight should make.
Your task is to write a function that given a starting position, ending position, and n number of moves to take, returns a list of all possible paths that that knight piece could take to reach the goal. If some input has no solution then simply return an empty list. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
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