Etudes sur le probleme de la marche du cavalier au jeu des echecs, et solution du probleme des huit dame
Author: A CretaineYear: 1865Publisher: A Cretaine, LibrairePlace: ParisDescription:11+42+[19 plates]+[1 blank]+[6 plates (2 folding)] pages with tables and diagrams. Octavo (9" x 5 1/2") bound in wrappers with original spine and covers tipped on. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 4085) First edition.A knight's tour is a sequence of moves of a knight on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square only once. If the knight ends on a square that is one knight's move from the beginning square (so that it could tour the board again immediately, following the same path), the tour is closed, otherwise it is open. The earliest known reference to the knight's tour problem dates back to the 9th century AD. In Rudraá¹a's Kavyalankara, a Sanskrit work on Poetics, the pattern of a knight's tour on a half-board has been presented as an elaborate poetic figure called the "turagapadabandha" or 'arrangement in the steps of a horse.' The same verse in four lines of eight syllables each