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knight's tour

sequence of moves of a knight on a chessboard to visit each square exactly once
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knight's tour

Summary

knight's tour is a mathematical chess problem[1]. It draws 416 Wikipedia views per month (mathematical_chess_problem category, ranking #1 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • knight's tour's video is recorded as Knight's tour anim 2.gif[3].
  • knight's tour's image is recorded as Thomasson symmetric closed knights tour.svg[4].
  • knight's tour's instance of is recorded as mathematical chess problem[5].
  • knight's tour's subclass of is recorded as Hamiltonian path problem[6].
  • knight's tour's subclass of is recorded as chess puzzle[7].
  • knight's tour's subclass of is recorded as mathematical chess problem[8].
  • knight's tour's Commons category is recorded as Knight's Tours[9].
  • knight's tour's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09lf2[10].
  • knight's tour's OEIS ID is recorded as A001230[11].
  • knight's tour's different from is recorded as Knight's tour[12].
  • knight's tour's uses is recorded as knight's graph[13].
  • knight's tour's studied by is recorded as graph theory[14].
  • knight's tour's MathWorld ID is recorded as KnightsTour[15].
  • knight's tour's Rosetta Code page ID is recorded as Knight's_tour[16].
  • knight's tour's Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID is recorded as knightstour[17].
  • knight's tour's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[18].
  • knight's tour's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Chess[19].
  • knight's tour's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 76178041[20].
  • knight's tour's ProofWiki ID is recorded as Definition:Knight's_Tour[21].

Why It Matters

knight's tour draws 416 Wikipedia views per month (mathematical_chess_problem category, ranking #1 of 6).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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