Fiveleapers a-leaping

Fiveleapers a-leaping

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Article ID: iaor20061428
Country: United States
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Publication Date: Jan 2003
Journal: INFORMS Transactions on Education
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Keywords: education in OR
Abstract:

The problem of finding knight's tours on a chessboard is well documented in the literature of Recreational Mathematics and is also known in ORMS circles as an instance of the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP). A similar but much lesser known puzzle taken from the whimsical world of Fairy Chess is that of identifying fiveleaper tours. A knight move may be described as having coordinates {1,2} meaning in a single move it travels one square in a particular direction and two squares in an orthogonal direction. Using this notation the legal moves for a fiveleaper have coordinates {0,5} or {3,4}. In either event the Euclidean distance traveled is five squares.

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