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When my better half bought an iRobot Roomba, it came with an invitation to develop new programs for it. It's fun to watch one of these when you first get it, in part because there are just a few easily identified floor coverage algorithms. And they're way different than anything I expected.
Maybe all it can be programmed for is movement patterns, but for 400 USD it might be fun and you would see some tangible results.
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A bishop moves "diagonally" -- that's good one-word description.
Is there a generally accepted one-word description of how a rook moves? "Horizontally", "vertically", and "perpendicularly" don't seem correct. "Straight" seems too vague.
P.S. I'm going with "orthogonal".
modified 14-Oct-15 23:10pm.
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I've seen horizontally, vertically mentioned in the same breath, as Ive seen 'forwards, backwards and to the sides', and then 'horizontally and vertically both forwards and backwards' - so if you want one word, horizontally and vertically arnt too bad
Perpendicularly .. hmmmm
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: horizontally and vertically
But I seek one word that covers both.
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Yes, a very good word for this situation. 
The pieces cross the divisions of the board at right angles to them.
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Over yonder!
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That sounds more like a shuffle board term. You've been in Florida too long.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: You've been in Florida too long.
30 years! I think I'm starting to rub off on them! 
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Which way does your chad hang? 
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To the south of course!
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It hangs so far south it's started to go north.
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This [^] might give you a general idea. 
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A rook moves to an adjacent[^] location.
/ravi
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No, rooks aren't limited to adjacent squares. And I would include diagonally adjacent as adjacent. The King can move to any adjacent square.
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That just sounds like "side-to-side" to me.
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Right side, left side, front side, back side, side-to-side
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A "lateral" pass in (American) football goes across the width of the field; it doesn't move the ball down the length of the field (or not much anyway).
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As opposed to longitudinal?
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Lateral encapsulates longitudinal
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