>>>Take a chessboard, and remove two diagonally-opposite squares (for instance, remove the upper-right and the lower-left corner). This leaves 62 squares total. Can you cover these squares with 31 domino pieces? Each domino covers two adjacent squares.
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>>>Hilmar.
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>>Remove squares from a chessboard?
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>>Heresy, I tell you!!!
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>>< grin >
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>>(from a chess hobbyist)
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>Well, I am a chess enthusiast myself, but I also enjoy "alternative" chess - at least in theory, I didn't play much in practice. Examples of alternatives include hexagonal chess, 3-D chess (this turns out to be too confusing), cylindrical chess (normal chessboard, but pieces can go "over the edge" to the other side), and many more.
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>Hilmar.

Do you play on the professional level or as an amauter (?spell)? If the later, we can play online once, if you'd like... On yahoo.com...