Backtracking
Problem :-
Solve the Knight's tour problem i.e find a Knight's tour on a 8 x 8 chessboard.
A Knight's tour is a sequence of moves of Knight on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square exactly once.
Solution :-
A Knight is placed on the first cell of an empty chessboard and can move according to the chess rules.
At any point on the chessboard, the knight have a maximum of 8 possible options to make a move.
1 ) Suppose, the knight is currently in cell ( x , y ) and it chooses one of the possible moves to a cell ( if the cell is not visited previously and the move is indeed a valid one ). Then, we move the knight to that cell and check recursively whether we can find a solution from that cell. If the solution exists, then that cell is marked as visited and then again knight chooses one of the possible moves and follows same steps.
2 ) If the solution doesn't exits, then the knight backtracks to the previous cell ( x , y ) and tries out other possible alternatives.
When all the cells are visited, we have found a sequence of knight moves which visits every cell on the chessboard exactly once. See the implementation below.
#include<iostream>
#define N 8
using namespace std;
// defines a structure for chess moves
typedef struct chess_moves {
// 'x' and 'y' coordinates on chess board
int x,y;
}chess_moves;
// displays the knight tour solution
void printTour(int tour[N][N]) {
int i,j;
for (i = 0; i < N; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < N; j++) {
cout<<tour[i][j]<<"\t";
}
cout<<endl;
}
}
// check if the next move (as per knight's constraints) is possible
bool isMovePossible(chess_moves next_move, int tour[N][N]) {
int i = next_move.x;
int j = next_move.y;
if ((i >= 0 && i < N) && (j >= 0 && j < N) && (tour[i][j] == 0))
return true;
return false;
}
// recursive function to find a knight tour
bool findTour(int tour[N][N], chess_moves move_KT[],
chess_moves curr_move, int move_count) {
int i;
chess_moves next_move;
if (move_count == N*N-1) {
// Knight tour is completed i.e all cells on the
// chess board has been visited by knight once
return true;
}
// try out the possible moves starting from the current coordinate
for (i = 0; i < N; i++) {
// get the next move
next_move.x = curr_move.x + move_KT[i].x;
next_move.y = curr_move.y + move_KT[i].y;
if (isMovePossible(next_move, tour)) {
// if the move is possible
// increment the move count and store it in tour matrix
tour[next_move.x][next_move.y] = move_count+1;
if (findTour(tour, move_KT, next_move, move_count+1) == true) {
return true;
}
else {
// this move was invalid, try out other possiblities
tour[next_move.x][next_move.y] = 0;
}
}
}
return false;
}
// wrapper function
void knightTour() {
int tour[N][N];
int i,j;
// initialize tour matrix
for (i = 0; i < N; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < N; j++) {
tour[i][j] = 0;
}
}
// all possible moves that knight can take
chess_moves move_KT[8] = { {2,1},{1,2},{-1,2},{-2,1},
{-2,-1},{-1,-2},{1,-2},{2,-1} };
// knight tour starts from coordinate (0,0)
chess_moves curr_move = {0,0};
// find a possible knight tour using a recursive function
// starting from current move
if(findTour(tour, move_KT, curr_move, 0) == false) {
cout<<"\nKnight tour does not exist";
}
else {
cout<<"\nTour exist ...\n";
printTour(tour);
}
}
// main
int main() {
knightTour();
cout<<endl;
return 0;
}
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