import sys
sys.setrecursionlimit(10**7) #再帰関数の上限,10**5以上の場合python
import math
from copy import copy, deepcopy
from copy import deepcopy as dcp
from operator import itemgetter
from bisect import bisect_left, bisect, bisect_right#2分探索
#bisect_left(l,x), bisect(l,x)#aはソート済みである必要あり。aの中からx未満の要素数を返す。rightだと以下
from collections import deque, defaultdict
#deque(l), pop(), append(x), popleft(), appendleft(x)
#q.rotate(n)で → にn回ローテート
from collections import Counter#文字列を個数カウント辞書に、
#S=Counter(l),S.most_common(x),S.keys(),S.values(),S.items()
from itertools import accumulate,combinations,permutations,product#累積和
#list(accumulate(l))
from heapq import heapify,heappop,heappush
#heapify(q),heappush(q,a),heappop(q) #q=heapify(q)としないこと、返り値はNone
from functools import reduce,lru_cache#pypyでもうごく
#@lru_cache(maxsize = None)#maxsizeは保存するデータ数の最大値、2**nが最も高効率
from decimal import Decimal
from argparse import ArgumentParser

args=ArgumentParser()
args.add_argument('-loc', '--local', type=bool,default=False)
LOCAL=args.parse_args().local

def input(): 
    x=sys.stdin.readline(); 
    if x[-1]=="\n": 
        return x.rstrip() 
    return x
    
def printe(*x):_=print("## ",*x,file=sys.stderr) if LOCAL else 0
def printl(li): _=print(*li, sep="\n") if li else None
def argsort(s, return_sorted=False): 
    inds=sorted(range(len(s)), key=lambda k: s[k])
    if return_sorted: return inds, [s[i] for i in inds]
    return inds
def alp2num(c,cap=False): return ord(c)-97 if not cap else ord(c)-65
def num2alp(i,cap=False): return chr(i+97) if not cap else chr(i+65)
def matmat(A,B):
    K,N,M=len(B),len(A),len(B[0])
    return [[sum([(A[i][k]*B[k][j]) for k in range(K)]) for j in range(M)] for i in range(N)]
def matvec(M,v):
    N,size=len(v),len(M)
    return [sum([M[i][j]*v[j] for j in range(N)]) for i in range(size)]
def T(M):
    n,m=len(M),len(M[0])
    return [[M[j][i] for j in range(n)] for i in range(m)]
def binr(x): return bin(x)[2:]
def bitcount(x): #xは64bit整数
    x= x - ((x >> 1) & 0x5555555555555555)
    x= (x & 0x3333333333333333) + ((x >> 2) & 0x3333333333333333)
    x= (x + (x >> 4)) & 0x0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f 
    x+= (x >> 8); x+= (x >> 16); x+= (x >> 32) 
    return x & 0x7f

def main():
    mod = 1000000007
    #w.sort(key=itemgetter(1),reverse=True)  #二個目の要素で降順並び替え

    #N = int(input())
    H,W = map(int, input().split())
    ch,cw = map(int, input().split())
    dh,dw = map(int, input().split())
    #A = tuple(map(int, input().split())) #1行ベクトル
    #L = tuple(int(input()) for i in range(N)) #改行ベクトル
    S = tuple(input() for i in range(H)) #改行行列
    ch-=1;cw-=1;dw-=1;dh-=1
    N=H*W
    def dfs(start,goal):
        q=deque([(start,0)])
        visited=[-1]*N
        while len(q):
            e,d=q.popleft()#ここをpopleftにすると幅優先探索BFSになる
            
            if e==goal:
                return d
            if visited[e]!=-1:continue
            
            cx,cy=divmod(e,W)

            visited[e]=d
            for dx,dy in ((-1,0),(1,0),(0,1),(0,-1)):
                if 0<=cx+dx<H and 0<=cy+dy<W and S[cx+dx][cy+dy]==".":
                    ne=(cx+dx)*W+cy+dy
                    q.appendleft((ne,d))
            for dx in range(-2,3):
                for dy in range(-2,3):
                    if 0<=cx+dx<H and 0<=cy+dy<W and S[cx+dx][cy+dy]==".":
                        ne=(cx+dx)*W+cy+dy
                        q.append((ne,d+1))
        return -1
    print(dfs(ch*W+cw,dh*W+dw))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Measured memory_bytes: 179824