Time Limit: 1000MS Memory Limit: 65536K
Total Submissions: 7832 Accepted: 2671
Description
Background
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.
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 < iostream >
using namespace std;
static int step[ 8 ][ 2 ] = { - 2 , - 1 , - 2 , 1 , - 1 , - 2 , - 1 , 2 , 1 , - 2 , 1 , 2 , 2 , - 1 , 2 , 1 };
bool DFS( int x, int y, int p, int q, bool board[ 26 ][ 26 ], char path[ 54 ], int marked)
{
if (marked == p * q) return true ;
int x1, y1;
for ( int i = 0 ; i < 8 ; ++ i)
{
x1 = x + step[i][ 0 ];
y1 = y + step[i][ 1 ];
if (x1 >= 0 && x1 < q && y1 >= 0 && y1 < p && board[y1][x1] == false )
{
board[y1][x1] = true ;
path[(marked << 1 )] = x1 + ' A ' ;
path[(marked << 1 ) + 1 ] = y1 + ' 1 ' ;
if (DFS(x1,y1,p,q,board,path,marked + 1 )) return true ;
board[y1][x1] = false ;
}
}
return false ;
}
int main( int argc, char * argv[])
{
bool board[ 26 ][ 26 ];
char path[ 54 ];
int cases;
cin >> cases;
for ( int c = 1 ; c <= cases; ++ c)
{
int p, q;
cin >> p >> q;
memset(board, 0 , sizeof (board));
memset(path, 0 , sizeof (path));
board[ 0 ][ 0 ] = true ;
path[ 0 ] = ' A ' ;
path[ 1 ] = ' 1 ' ;
if (DFS( 0 , 0 ,p,q,board,path, 1 ))
cout << " Scenario # " << c << " :\n " << path << endl << endl;
else
cout << " Scenario # " << c << " :\nimpossible\n " << endl;
};
return 0 ;
}