OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
I used ZDD techniques to show that a(9)=47. (This is the longest uncrossed knight's path on a 9 X 9 board; thus I confirmed the conjecture that the paths of length 47, found by hand long ago, are indeed optimum.) - Don Knuth, Jun 24 2010
For best known results see link to Alex Chernov's site. - Dmitry Kamenetsky, Mar 02 2021
REFERENCES
D. E. Knuth, Long and skinny knight's tours, in Selected Papers on Fun and Games, CSLI, Stanford, CA, 2010. (CSLI Lecture Notes, vol. 192)
J. S. Madachy, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, Apr 26 1975.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
Various authors, Uncrossed knight's tours, J. Rec. Math., 2 (1969), 154-157.
L. D. Yarbrough, Uncrossed knight's tours, J. Rec. Math., 1 (No. 3, 1969), 140-142.
LINKS
Alex Chernov, Uncrossed Knight's Tours.
George Jelliss, Non-Intersecting Paths.
J. S. Madachy, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, Apr 26 1975.
Jean-Charles Meyrignac, Non-crossing knight tours.
N. J. A. Sloane, Illustration of initial terms
Various authors, Uncrossed knight's tours, J. Rec. Math., 2 (1969), 154-157. [Annotated scanned copy]
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Knight's Tour
L. D. Yarbrough, Uncrossed knight's tours, J. Rec. Math., 1 (No. 3, 1969), 140-142. [Annotated scanned copy]
EXAMPLE
Lengths of longest uncrossed knight's paths on all sufficiently small rectangular boards m X n, with 3 <= m <= n:
......2...4...5...6...8...9..10
..........5...7...9..11..13..15
.............10..14..16..19..22
.................17..21..25..29
.....................24..30..35
.........................35..42
.............................47
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,walk,nice,more,hard
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
a(1)=a(2)=0 prepended by Max Alekseyev, Jul 17 2011
STATUS
approved