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Update on B:
still no solve, however
Through glancing at someone else's code, I was inspired to just try simulating the A problem beyond 64 steps and seeing the result.Essentially it reaches a (bi stable?) steady state between two numbers, which makes sense- if you can only make single rook steps, then the reachable squares will alternate every cycle.
Don't know if I'll try solve this again tonight but mentally I have now understood the solution.