Questions tagged [knight-moves]
For puzzles based on the movements of a knight piece in chess.
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Knight meets wall… so what?
1. Knight Distance
Knight distance is a figure that represents the minimal move that will bring a knight to a specific square in chessboard.
For example, knight distance when knight is on c4 goes:
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Partial knight's tour with crosslinks
We have many puzzles to find complete knight's tours – including on 4D boards, irregular boards and nonplanar boards – but few puzzles to find partial tours where only some cells are visited. I ...
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Determine the chess knight’s tour of a 6x6 chessboard given some hints
A chess knight traversed a 6x6 chessboard and returned to the starting square after visiting all the other squares exactly once. Some of the squares still bear a trace of the knight's visit - the ...
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The knight cannot jump over its tail
Consider a chess knight that will draw a line on the board after each move between the square it came from and the square it moved to.
What is the maximum number of moves that this knight can do on a ...
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How quickly can the knight be trapped? [duplicate]
A Chess knight is placed on an infinite chessboard. If it cannot move to a square previously visited, how can you make it unable to move in as few moves as possible?
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The chessboard is ...
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Dance of The Knights puzzle
Here is a puzzle sold in the late 80s and 90s in shops and market stalls.
Now in this digital age, it can easily be shared. Hope you like it!
It says 'Rearrange the marbles between the two patterns ...
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Can a knight capture all 16 pawns in 16 consecutive moves?
Beginner puzzle (suitable for people who are new to puzzle solving).
To solve this problem you need not be a chess player.
You need only know the way a knight moves on the chessboard: two squares in ...
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Who wins in this knight-placement game?
Two players take turns placing knights on the squares of a standard 8x8 chessboard, so that no knight can take another. The player who is unable to do this loses. Which player has a winning strategy ...
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Swap the positions of the 4 chess knights
The puzzle seems simple enough. It is only a few squares and you only have four knights (the knights move in an “L” shape, like in regular chess). The goal is also straightforward: swap the positions ...
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Fill the grid subject to product, sum and knight move constraints
Using the numbers 2, 3, 4, ... 19 each exactly once, fill some of the empty squares in the grid with a number so that the product of the numbers in each row is as shown, as is the sum of the numbers ...
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How can the knight traverse a chessboard to make a path that sums to 100
THE KNIGHT'S CENTURY.
THEN Dr. Bates drew on a large sheet of paper a reduced chessboard of twenty-five squares, and numbered it in the manner shown in our diagram. He then placed a chess knight on ...
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A Knight's Tour
A lonely chess knight stands on a cell somewhere in the first row of a 3x13 board, and elsewhere there is a castle.
The knight takes a tour of all the remaining 37 cells of the board, missing just the ...
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Camel-eon 8x8 tour
This question is inspired by the Chameleon 8x8 tour puzzle.
A knight is a chess piece that moves by jumping to a square $\sqrt 5$ units from its location. (The more conventional way to put it is that ...
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Knight tour on a racetrack
Help the chess knight complete four clockwise laps on this racetrack, so that he lands on every square and never lands on the same square twice! The final square the knight lands on will be the same ...
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The Knight's Romp
Recently I was messing around with a singular knight on a chess board, and I came up with an interesting dilemma.
Can you move a knight, from starting on any square, such that its path covers every ...
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