I want to fill a vector with 8 pairs. Each pair represents the moves in x and y coordinates a knight in a game of chess can make. At the moment I'm doing it like this

vector<pair<int,int>> moves;

pair<int,int> aPair;
aPair.first = -2;
aPair.second = -1;
moves.push_back(aPair);
aPair.first = -2;
aPair.second = 1;
moves.push_back(aPair);
aPair.first = -1;
aPair.second = -2;
moves.push_back(aPair);
aPair.first = -1;
aPair.second = 2;
moves.push_back(aPair);
aPair.first = 1;
aPair.second = -2;
moves.push_back(aPair);
aPair.first = 1;
aPair.second = 2;
moves.push_back(aPair);
aPair.first = 2;
aPair.second = -1;
moves[6].push_back(aPair);
aPair.first = 2;
aPair.second = 1;
moves.push_back(aPair); 

I'm doing this to learn about the Std library. This seems like a hopelessly inefficient way of solving this problem.

Anyone have a more elegant solution?

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