| Article ID: | iaor20061428 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2003 |
| Journal: | INFORMS Transactions on Education |
| Authors: | Chlond Martin J. |
| Keywords: | education in OR |
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.