Can You Solve The Knight On A Chessboard Riddle? Math Olympiad Problem

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Can You Solve The Knight On A Chessboard Riddle? Math Olympiad Problem

Alice and Bob are playing a game. Alice starts by placing a knight on the chessboard. Then they take turns moving the knight to a new square (standard chess rules apply: the knight moves in an "L" shape). The first player who cannot move the knight to a new square loses the game. Who wins if both players play optimally, and what is the winning strategy? This is quite the game theory challenge; watch the video for the remarkable solution!

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Knight's Tour - Numberphile:

The first magic tour has an error with 62 and 64 transposed....
See here: http://periodicvideos.blogspot.co.uk/.

Brown papers: http://bit.ly/brownpapers

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Some good knight's tour links:
Great overview by Ben Hill and Kevin Tostado: http://bit.ly/1hYHoLE
Notes and huge resource by George Jelliss: http://bit.ly/1kCGGWp
Paper on using "ants" to find knight's tours: http://bit.ly/1cqxcUd
Good stuff on Magic Knight's Tours: http://bit.ly/1apxScE
On the number of knight's tours: http://bit.ly/Lj4NKh

Numberphile is supported by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI): http://bit.ly/MSRINumberphile

The game theory books:
https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/20.

Alternate proof/other board sizes
https://math.stackexchange.com/questi.

https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/qu.

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The 8 Queen Problem - Numberphile:

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here is 8 queen problem solution

 

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smart57 wrote:

here is 8 queen problem solution

 

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+ here's another solution:

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+ more solutions for 8-Queen problem:

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+ more&more endless solutions:

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@dadoom

the first solution you put for 8 queens is not a solution i think, because queens on a8 and h1 are attacking each other

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smart57 wrote:

@dadoom

the first solution you put for 8 queens is not a solution i think, because queens on a8 and h1 are attacking each other

i missed that detail@first, thanks for the correction by your side, so i put another one/representing Queen Puzzle to comment number 7