im terrible at knight moves :(

good post though!

If you did the test correctly you would be a budding chess genius, but I get the impression that some are not getting the gist of the test.

I'll repeat the terms of the test for everyone:

The black pawns are permanent and immobile, and they are coming down the board at you so they control b2,d2,e2,g2 etc.

Your task is to visit every square not controlled or occupied by the pawns and do it in sequence of a1 b1 c1 d1...h1 h2 f2 (note g2 is skipped as it is controlled by a black pawn--as will be d2 e2 b2 and the other squares on the board controlled by the pawns) c2 a2 a3 b3 d3 e3 and so forth. You criss-cross the board until you have reached in this manner a8.

You cannot take a pawn. If you land on a square controlled by a pawn, or on a pawn, that is a 10 second penalty.

You are required to move the knight in legal moves (I think some may just be picking up the knight like a rubber stamp and hitting squares to finish in a few seconds lol). The first maneuver to reach b1 is to move the knight from a1 to c2 to a3 to b1--first square reached. Now go from there to c1 in another maneuver.

If that isn't clear let me know.

I think my score those several decades ago was c. 6 minutes. Perfectly average I think.

Hmmmm . . . not sure I understand the problem.

You want the Knight moved to each of 51 squares during the puzzle, right? Omitting (from the 64 board squares) the start square, a1, and also omitting any square occupied by and threatened by a pawn.

If this is the case, I scored 15 minutes or so. Yup, not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

PS sorry goldendog, i didn't see your post.

It sounds like you understood the test. If you followed the criss-crossing sequence as you step up the board ranks and ended up at a8, you got the idea almost certainly.

you can't simply determine a person's iq from a person's ability to manuever a chess piece.

You mean like I said in post #1?

this looks like a great problem..cant wait to try it!

I don't think people are doing it properly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it'll take at least a couple of hundred moves to complete the exercise. It's not just on the first rank.

It took me about a minute to do the first rank but bear in mind I am drinking a lot of cask wine in the bathtub today.

padman, you must be doing it right.

Right. You must do all the ranks one by one everyone (even the drunks).