On an error in the star puzzle by Henry E. Dudeney

• Published in 2012
• Added on 2012-05-22

We found a solution of the star puzzle (a path on a chessboard from c5 to d4 in 14 straight strokes) in 14 queen moves, which has been claimed by the author as impossible.

Links

• http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0747
• http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.0747v2

Other information

BibTeX entry

@article{Ravsky2012,
	key = {Ravsky2012},
	type = {article},
	title = {On an error in the star puzzle by Henry E. Dudeney},
	author = {Ravsky, Alex},
	abstract = {We found a solution of the star puzzle (a path on a chessboard from c5 to d4 in 14 straight strokes) in 14 queen moves, which has been claimed by the author as impossible.},
	comment = {},
	date_added = {2012-05-22},
	date_published = {2012-05-01},
	urls = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0747,http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.0747v2},
	collections = {Puzzles},
	archivePrefix = {arXiv},
	arxivId = {1205.0747},
	eprint = {1205.0747},
	journal = {Star},
	month = {may},
	pages = 2,
	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0747 http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.0747v2},
	year = 2012,
	primaryClass = {math.HO},
	urldate = {2012-05-22}
}