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# 1197. Minimum Knight Moves

<https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-knight-moves>

## Description

In an **infinite** chess board with coordinates from `-infinity` to `+infinity`, you have a **knight** at square `[0, 0]`.

A knight has 8 possible moves it can make, as illustrated below. Each move is two squares in a cardinal direction, then one square in an orthogonal direction.

![](https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2018/10/12/knight.png) Return *the minimum number of steps needed to move the knight to the square* `[x, y]`. It is guaranteed the answer exists.

**Example 1:**

```
**Input:** x = 2, y = 1
**Output:** 1
**Explanation:** [0, 0] → [2, 1]
```

**Example 2:**

```
**Input:** x = 5, y = 5
**Output:** 4
**Explanation:** [0, 0] → [2, 1] → [4, 2] → [3, 4] → [5, 5]
```

**Constraints:**

* `-300 <= x, y <= 300`
* `0 <= |x| + |y| <= 300`

## ac

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