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A puzzle involving checkerboards: grids of squares alternating black and white in color, most commonly an 8x8 board.
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Painting a chessboard
I can do
like so:
The pattern might be even prettier than that of @hexomino's answer. :-)
EDIT: sadly, no circle pattern anymore, but scores none better: (RE-EDIT: bold letter added because of Jaap' …
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The Knight's Romp
First things first: let's check the divisibility.
There are 64 squares, and the knight is standing in one of them. That leaves 63 squares to cover, and each move covers 3 squares, so that seems to wor …
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Discrete Peaceful Encampments: 9 queens on a chessboard
Can I claim Nine-and-a-half? :-)
You can replace either bishop with a tenth queen, but then the other bishop's square must remain empty.
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Discrete Peaceful Encampments: Player 3 has entered the game!
Ok, I'ma call it.
This is the most efficient way to do it:
Notice how
This way you can get
In addition to all that:
This all is a result of feeding this problem into a highly sophistica …
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A King's Short Walk
Like so?
The beginning seems almost forced (apart from symmetries), and the rest just fell in place on the first attempt.
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Crazy queen in checkers
I found a possible solution with
..so the answer that proved that the maximum is three less probably needs some work. :-)
I tried to fit more black pieces in while making sure that each piece is …
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Chess - I will eat!
Surely
must be enough, and also required.
After
white has two unavoidable captures coming up: on white's next move, the
Black can prevent only one of those moves, so
the first objective is complet …
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