Determine Color of a Chessboard Square Using Python

Suppose we have a chessboard coordinate, that is a string that represents the coordinates of row and column of the chessboard. Below is a chessboard for your reference.

We have to check whether given cell is white or not, if white return true, otherwise return false.

So, if the input is like coordinate = "f5", then the output will be True (See the image)

To solve this, we will follow these steps −

• if ASCII of coordinate[0] mod 2 is same coordinate[1]) mod 2, then

  • return False

• otherwise,

  • return True

Let us see the following implementation to get better understanding −

Example

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def solve(coordinate):
   if (ord(coordinate[0]))%2 == int(coordinate[1])%2:
      return False
   else:
      return True
coordinate = "f5"
print(solve(coordinate))

Input

"f5"

Output

True