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When a chess board is printed, it is generally done so from white's perspective: with white at the bottom of the board, and black at the top. The bottom-left square in chess notation is a1.
When using 0-indexed arrays, as this practice exercise does, one would naturally think that [0,0] might correspond to square a1.
Instead, prior to this change, the tests specified that the first square printed was [0,0], which would make [0,0] equivalent to a8.
If a solution did treat [0,0] as a1, then they would run into problems at the board visualization stage.
In this PR, we add tests that explicitly clarify the white and black queen's starting positions such that they correspond with an orientation of [0,0] being equivalent to square a1. We also update the board visualization tests accordingly.