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Queen v Knight

Year: 2026

Type: preprint

Abstract: This paper introduces Queen versus Knight, a chessboard puzzle where stationary queens create unsafe squares and a knight must visit every remaining safe square exactly once. It explores friendly and hostile queen arrangements on boards of different sizes, proves two infinite families of solutions, and includes diagrams and independently checkable supporting files.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21490179

Author: Whitaker, Simon

Language: English

Topic: Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics

Subfield: Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

Field: Mathematics

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7170110288

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