A Knight's Journey
Time Limit: 1000MS | Memory Limit: 65536K | |
Total Submissions: 43095 | Accepted: 14619 |
Description

The knight is getting bored of seeing the same black and white squares again and again and has decided to make a journey
around the world. Whenever a knight moves, it is two squares in one direction and one square perpendicular to this. The world of a knight is the chessboard he is living on. Our knight lives on a chessboard that has a smaller area than a regular 8 * 8 board, but it is still rectangular. Can you help this adventurous knight to make travel plans?
Problem
Find a path such that the knight visits every square once. The knight can start and end on any square of the board.
Input
The input begins with a positive integer n in the first line. The following lines contain n test cases. Each test case consists of a single line with two positive integers p and q, such that 1 <= p * q <= 26. This represents a p * q chessboard, where p describes how many different square numbers 1, . . . , p exist, q describes how many different square letters exist. These are the first q letters of the Latin alphabet: A, . . .
Output
The output for every scenario begins with a line containing "Scenario #i:", where i is the number of the scenario starting at 1. Then print a single line containing the lexicographically first path that visits all squares of the chessboard with knight moves followed by an empty line. The path should be given on a single line by concatenating the names of the visited squares. Each square name consists of a capital letter followed by a number.
If no such path exist, you should output impossible on a single line.
If no such path exist, you should output impossible on a single line.
Sample Input
3 1 1 2 3 4 3
Sample Output
Scenario #1: A1 Scenario #2: impossible Scenario #3: A1B3C1A2B4C2A3B1C3A4B2C4
Source
TUD Programming Contest 2005, Darmstadt, Germany
#include<stdio.h>
#include<iostream>
#include<algorithm>
#include<string.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<time.h>
#include<math.h>
#include<queue>;
#include<stack>;
#include <iomanip>;
using namespace std;
int t,b[100][2],v[10][10],n,m,p;
int dir[8][2]= {{-1,-2},{1,-2},{-2,-1},{2,-1},{-2,1},{2,1},{-1,2},{1,2}};
int go(int x,int y)
{
if(1<=x&&x<=n&&1<=y&&y<=m&&!v[x][y]&&!p)
return 1;
return 0;
}
void dfs(int x,int y,int c)
{
b[c][0]=y;
b[c][1]=x;
if(c==n*m)
{
p=1;
return;
}
for(int i=0; i<8; i++)
{
int ex=x+dir[i][0];
int ey=y+dir[i][1];
if(go(ex,ey))
{
v[ex][ey]=1;
dfs(ex,ey,c+1);
v[ex][ey]=0;
}
}
}
int main()
{
scanf("%d",&t);
for(int i=1; i<=t; i++)
{
p=0;
scanf("%d%d",&n,&m);
memset(v,0,sizeof(v));
printf("Scenario #%d:\n",i);
v[1][1]=1;
dfs(1,1,1);
if(p==1)
{
for(int i=1; i<=n*m; i++)
{
printf("%c%d",b[i][0]+'A'-1,b[i][1]);
}
}
else
printf("impossible");
printf("\n");
if(i!=t)
printf("\n");
}
}