1) BFS refresher: Suppose you have an n × n chessboard and a knight placed in one of the squares. You would like to find out the fewest number of moves needed to reach a given target square. Design an algorithm for this task stated formally below: Input: An n × n chess board, a starting square S, and a target square T. Output: The fewest number of moves a knight takes to move from S to T. Write in Pseudocode, please.

1) BFS refresher: Suppose you have an n × n chessboard and a knight placed in one of the squares. You would like to find out the fewest number of moves needed to reach a given target square. Design an algorithm for this task stated formally below: Input: An n × n chess board, a starting square S, and a target square T. Output: The fewest number of moves a knight takes to move from S to T. Write in Pseudocode, please.

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