This very beautiful specimen of a knight’s tour on the chess-board takes its name from the figure formed by the tracery at its centre.
An endless number of symmetrical patterns of varied design can be formed, by a knight’s consecutive moves, with patience and ingenuity.
No. LXXXIV.—A STAR’S TOUR
Here is a pretty and very regular specimen of a knight’s tour on the chess board.
It is one of many variations which produce in the tracery a central star.
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MAKE IT KNOWN
My first she was a serving maid,
Who went to buy some tea;
How much she bought my second tells,
As all may plainly see.
Now when the answer you have found
Tell it to others too;
My whole will then to maids and men
Explain what ’tis you do.