Knights Tours

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Knights Tours

Post by Royal » Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:33 pm

To create a Knight's Tour, a chess knight must jump exactly once to every square on the 8x8 chessboard in a complete tour. Various kinds of Knight's Tours have fascinated mathematicians for centuries. The earliest recorded solution was provided by Abraham de Moivre, the French mathematician better known for the normal distribution curve and his theorems for complex numbers.

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