John J. Watkins’s research while affiliated with Harvey Mudd College and other places

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Across the board: The mathematics of chessboard problems
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September 2005

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The Mathematical Intelligencer

John J. Watkins

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... Chess is a deep well of ideas for mathematical problems, inspiring entire textbooks such as [Wat04] and [Pet11]. A famous problem is the n queens problem, originally proposed by Bezzel under the pen-name "Schadenfreude" in [Bez48], which considers the maximum number of safe squares on an n × n chess board when placing n queens. ...

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Hyper-bishops, Hyper-rooks, and Hyper-queens: Percentage of Safe Squares on Higher Dimensional Chess Boards
Across the board: The mathematics of chessboard problems
  • Citing Article
  • September 2005

The Mathematical Intelligencer