Questions tagged [knight-tours]

Use this tag to describe mathematics questions dealing with the knight's tour problem. A knight's tour is a series of legal knight moves in chess that visits all of the squares on the board exactly once.

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What's this kind of visualization of the Knight's Tour called? Connected rectangular graphs?

What's this kind of visualization of the Knight's Tour called? Connected rectangular graphs? This is on a 6x6 chessboard. Also, why are the rectangular regions separated like that? And why does one get similar (3x3) rectangular areas?
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Table-game problem that a bit looks like Knight's Tour problem

Given a table containing some instruction in each cell ($L$ - $U$ - $R$ - $D$ = Left - Up - Right - Down). The coefficient of the instruction means the number of steps (for example, $2L$ means you should move two squares to your left). The task is…
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Show that, in a chessboard it is possible to traverse to any given square from another given square using a knight.

Show that, in a chessboard it is possible to traverse to any given square from another given square using a knight. This was asked in a high school math competition.
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Properties of a general knight in the knight's tour problem.

I am currently investigating how the knight's tour problem differs when a general knight (m, n) is used instead of a traditional knight (2, 1), where m represents moving a number of squares along one axis and n represents the number of squares along…
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Knight's open tour on 5X5 board

I'm trying to write a program that finds an open knight's tour on 5X5 board starting from every point. I So the question is does every point actually has a solution. I found this answer that says that there is no solution when you start at any of…