Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To George Duke wrote on Tue, Jun 17, 2008 02:26 PM EDT:What is a chess piece but a vector anyway? We want CV problems of the calibre of good Physics questions, like ''(W) A seagull sits on the ground. Wind-velocity is v. How high can the gull rise without doing any work? (X) A siren is fixed at the origin. Wind is blowing at w = 100 km/h from north. Determine (i) the group speed and (ii) the phase speed of sound going north, south, and east. (Y) Neutral pi-mesons (mass m) in flight at speed cB (with respect to laboratory) decay into two photons. Calculate the energy of the photons emitted at a given angle to the flight path.'' --all from Gabriel Barton 'Relativity Principle' (1999). For Chess we can devise rough counterparts. (1) A Falcon sits on the board centrally. How many moves are possible without re-crossing any of its paths on 8x8? 8x10? (2) A Springer(N) is fixed at an opening position. How many moves are maximally possible without crossing any of its paths on 8x8? 8x10? 10x10? [N.b.: these are not classic Tours, which permit route-crossing.] (3) more Problems in follow-up Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID ChessboardMath does not match any item.