Definition:Knight's Tour

Definition

A knight's tour is a puzzle in recreational chess.

On a chessboard of arbitrary size, a chess knight is to make a complete tour of the chessboard,

visiting each square once and once only

and ending up a knight's move from its starting square

so that its circuit is continuous.

Also see

• Definition:Queen's Tour

• Results about knight's tours can be found here.

Historical Note

The knight's tour was one of the problems of recreational mathematics considered by Leonhard Paul Euler.

Sources

• 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): The Knight's Tour: $132$