Knight's Tour

Knight's Tour: Visualize and Solve Chess Puzzles

Solve the classic chess puzzle where the knight visits every square on the board once, with interactive visualization of various board sizes.

What is Knight's Tour?

The Knight's Tour is a mathematical puzzle involving a knight chess piece on a chessboard. The objective is for the knight to visit every square on the board once using legal knight moves while landing on each square only one time. This puzzle has intrigued mathematicians and chess enthusiasts for centuries.

This Knight's Tour software generates an interactive chessboard that allows users to visualize and attempt to find a solution to the Knight's Tour puzzle. The software can create boards of various sizes such as the standard 8x8 chess board or larger boards up to 20x20 squares. Users can click squares on the board to move the knight piece and try to visit every square just once.

As squares are landed on, they change color to mark the knight's path. The software tracks the user's progress and will notify when a full tour solution is found. There is also an option for the software to show one or more pre-programmed solutions. Settings allow adjusting rules and parameters like board size, timer for solving, and more. Overall, this is an easy-to-use and educational tool for visualizing and interacting with the classic Knight's Tour chess puzzle.

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