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knight's tours

knight's tours is the plural of knight's tour.

Meaning of knight's tour

Noun

knight's tour (plural knight's tours)

  1. A sequence of positions on a chessboard, including each square precisely once, and where successive positions are a knight's move away from one another.
  2. A similar sequence on a board of any size or shape.

Questions about knight's tours

What is knight's tours the plural of?
Knight's tours is the plural of knight's tour.

Words near knight's tours in the dictionary

  1. knight's fee
  2. knight's pawn
  3. knight's pawns
  4. knight's spur
  5. knight's tour
  6. knight's tours
  7. Knight-Darwin law
  8. knight-errant
  9. knight-errantries
  10. knight-errantry
  11. knight-erratic

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