curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/daily-coding-challenges-javascript/69b5b2be76ec8135a7fbe973.md
Given a string for the location of a rook on a chess board, and another for the location of a bishop, determine if one piece can attack another.
A standard chessboard is 8x8, with columns labeled A through H (left to right) and rows labeled 1 through 8 (bottom to top). It looks like this:
| A8 | B8 | C8 | D8 | E8 | F8 | G8 | H8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A7 | B7 | C7 | D7 | E7 | F7 | G7 | H7 |
| A6 | B6 | C6 | D6 | E6 | F6 | G6 | H6 |
| A5 | B5 | C5 | D5 | E5 | F5 | G5 | H5 |
| A4 | B4 | C4 | D4 | E4 | F4 | G4 | H4 |
| A3 | B3 | C3 | D3 | E3 | F3 | G3 | H3 |
| A2 | B2 | C2 | D2 | E2 | F2 | G2 | H2 |
| A1 | B1 | C1 | D1 | E1 | F1 | G1 | H1 |
Return:
"rook" if the rook can attack the bishop."bishop" if the bishop can attack the rook."neither" if neither piece can attack one another.rookBishopAttack("A1", "A5") should return "rook".
assert.equal(rookBishopAttack("A1", "A5"), "rook");
rookBishopAttack("C3", "F6") should return "bishop".
assert.equal(rookBishopAttack("C3", "F6"), "bishop");
rookBishopAttack("D4", "D7") should return "rook".
assert.equal(rookBishopAttack("D4", "D7"), "rook");
rookBishopAttack("B7", "H1") should return "bishop".
assert.equal(rookBishopAttack("B7", "H1"), "bishop");
rookBishopAttack("B3", "C5") should return "neither".
assert.equal(rookBishopAttack("B3", "C5"), "neither");
rookBishopAttack("G3", "E8") should return "neither".
assert.equal(rookBishopAttack("G3", "E8"), "neither");
function rookBishopAttack(rook, bishop) {
return rook;
}
function rookBishopAttack(rook, bishop) {
const colDiff = Math.abs(rook.charCodeAt(0) - bishop.charCodeAt(0));
const rowDiff = Math.abs(rook[1] - bishop[1]);
if (rook[0] === bishop[0] || rook[1] === bishop[1]) return "rook";
if (colDiff === rowDiff) return "bishop";
return "neither";
}