 "Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)")
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DR Maths.(News)
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Dear Dr Maths
Take a chess board, see Picture 1, with an eight by eight grid of squares and remove the white squares from the two opposite corners. Is it possible to cover the remainder of the chessboard with dominoes, each domino covering 2 squares of the chess board? ...
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