Add square_manhattan_distance and square_knight_distance functions #986
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The chess library includes a function called square_distance, which calculates the Chebyshev distance (number of king steps) between 2 squares. This way of measuring distance is not always sufficient though, so I added two new distance functions.
square_manhattan_distance calculates the Manhattan or Taxicab distance between 2 squares. This is the minimal number of orthogonal king moves it would take to travel from one square to another.
square_knight_distance calculates the knight distance (using a pretty weird formula), which is the minimal number of knight moves to travel from one square to another