Solution of the knight’s Hamiltonian path problem on chessboards

Solution of the knight’s Hamiltonian path problem on chessboards

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Article ID: iaor1996266
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 50
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 125
End Page Number: 134
Publication Date: May 1994
Journal: Discrete Applied Mathematics
Authors: , , ,
Abstract:

Is it possible for a knight to visit all squares of an n×n chessboard on an admissible path exactly once? The answer is yes if and only if n≥5. The kth position in such a path can be computed with a constant number of arithmetic operations. A Hamiltonian path from a given source s to a given terminal t exists for n≥6 if and only if some easily testable color criterion is fulfilled. Hamiltonian circuits exist if and only if n≥6 and n is even.

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