No. LXXXIX.—CHESS ARITHMETIC

This beautiful symmetrical knight’s tour involves in its accomplishment a pretty problem in arithmetic:—

If we follow the course of the knight step by step, and number consecutively the squares on which it rests at each move, we find that there is a constant difference of 32 between the numbers on any two of these squares that correspond in position on opposite sides of the central line.

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My first can be no joke to crack,
My second I adore;
Reverse her name, and you will see
Just what that maiden is to me.
My whole is grown where boys are black
Upon a sultry shore.

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No. XC.—A SHORT KNIGHT’S TOUR

This short symmetrical knight’s tour can be tested on a corner of the chessboard:—