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The Mutilated Chessboard
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Two diagonally opposite corner squares are removed from a standard 8×8 chessboard, leaving 62 squares. Can the remaining board be exactly tiled by 31 dominoes, each covering two adjacent squares? Answer yes or no.
Approach
What colours are two opposite corners?
What does every single domino cover?
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