Learning Opportunities

This puzzle can be solved using the following concepts. Practice using these concepts and improve your skills.

Statement

This is a port of the board game Isola :

The source code of this game is available on this GitHub repo.

The Goal

The goal of the game is to block the opponent's pawn.

Rules

Board:

The game is played on a 9 x 9 board.
Player 0 always starts at (0, 4) and player 1 at (8, 4).

At each turn:

You must move your pawn to an adjacent tile (diagonal included) :

You can't :
- stay put
- move to the tile occupied by the opponent's pawn
- move to an already removed tile.
Then you must remove a free tile.
You can't remove a tile occupied by a pawn.

Victory Conditions

At his turn, the opponent can't move his pawn.

Loss Conditions

At your turn, you can't move your pawn.
You do not respond in time or output an invalid action.

Game Input

Initialization input

Line 1: playerPositionX
Line 2: playerPositionY the coordinates of your pawn.

Input for one game turn

Line 1: opponentPositionX
Line 2: opponentPositionY the coordinates of the opponent's pawn.
Line 3: opponentLastRemovedTileX
Line 4: opponentLastRemovedTileY the coordinates of the last tile removed by the opponent ( -1 -1 if no tile has been removed (first round)).

Output

A single line containing the coordinates where you want to move your pawn, followed by the coordinates of the tile you want to remove.
Example: 1 4 7 4
You can also add a message :
Example: 1 4 7 4;MESSAGE
NB : You can print RANDOM instead of the 4 coordinates. Then a random possible move and tile will be chosen.

Constraints

Response time first turn is ≤ 1000 ms.
Response time per turn is ≤ 100 ms.

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