Task: Straddling checkerboard
C++: #include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <map>
#include <algorithm> 
using namespace std;

class StraddlingCheckerboard
{
  map<char, string> table;
  char first[10], second[10], third[10];
  int rowU, rowV;

public:
  StraddlingCheckerboard(const string &alphabet, int u, int v)
  {
    rowU = min(u, v);
    rowV = max(u, v);

    for(int i = 0, j = 0; i < 10; ++i)
    {
      if(i != u && i != v)
      {
        first[i] = alphabet[j];
        table[alphabet[j]] = '0' + i;
        ++j;
      }

      second[i] = alphabet[i+8];
      table[alphabet[i+8]] = '0' + rowU;
      table[alphabet[i+8]] += '0' + i;

      third[i] = alphabet[i+18];
      table[alphabet[i+18]] = '0' + rowV;
      table[alphabet[i+18]] += '0' + i;
    }
  }

  string encode(const string &plain)
  {
    string out;
    for(int i = 0; i < plain.size(); ++i)
    {
      char c = plain[i];
      if(c >= 'a' && c <= 'z')
        c += 'A' - 'a';

      if(c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z')
        out += table[c];
      else if(c >= '0' && c <= '9')
      {
        out += table['/'];
        out += c;
      }
    }
    return out;
  }

  string decode(const string &cipher)
  {
    string out;
    int state = 0;
    for(int i = 0; i < cipher.size(); ++i)
    {
      int n = cipher[i] - '0';
      char next = 0;

      if(state == 1)
        next = second[n];
      else if(state == 2)
        next = third[n];
      else if(state == 3)
        next = cipher[i];
      else if(n == rowU)
        state = 1;
      else if(n == rowV)
        state = 2;
      else
        next = first[n];

      if(next == '/')
        state = 3;
      else if(next != 0)
      {
        state = 0;
        out += next;
      }
    }
    return out;
  }
};

Java: import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.regex.*;

public class StraddlingCheckerboard {

    final static String[] keyvals = {"H:0", "O:1", "L:2", "M:4", "E:5", "S:6",
        "R:8", "T:9", "A:30", "B:31", "C:32", "D:33", "F:34", "G:35", "I:36",
        "J:37", "K:38", "N:39", "P:70", "Q:71", "U:72", "V:73", "W:74", "X:75",
        "Y:76", "Z:77", ".:78", "/:79", "0:790", "1:791", "2:792", "3:793",
        "4:794", "5:795", "6:796", "7:797", "8:798", "9:799"};

    final static Map<String, String> val2key = new HashMap<>();
    final static Map<String, String> key2val = new HashMap<>();

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        for (String keyval : keyvals) {
            String[] kv = keyval.split(":");
            val2key.put(kv[0], kv[1]);
            key2val.put(kv[1], kv[0]);
        }
        String enc = encode("One night-it was on the twentieth of March, "
                + "1888-I was returning");
        System.out.println(enc);
        System.out.println(decode(enc));
    }

    static String encode(String s) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        for (String c : s.toUpperCase().split("")) {
            c = val2key.get(c);
            if (c != null)
                sb.append(c);
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }

    static String decode(String s) {
        Matcher m = Pattern.compile("(79.|3.|7.|.)").matcher(s);
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        while (m.find()) {
            String v = key2val.get(m.group(1));
            if (v != null)
                sb.append(v);
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }
}