Knight

File	knight.sit
Size	54.6 KB
Category	Game
Developer	Funet FTP Archive

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Knight is a 1991 board puzzle by Michael A. Kelly that challenges the player to land a chess knight on every square of a board without ever revisiting a square. It is a classic implementation of the Knight's Tour, the centuries-old combinatorial problem, dressed up for the Macintosh with a clickable board.How to playThe knight moves in the standard L-shape: one square horizontally or vertically, then one square diagonally outward in the same general direction. Players choose any starting square and click target squares to move. The goal is a complete tour with no repeats.The puzzle's pedigreeThe Knight's Tour has been studied since at least the 9th century and is solvable from many starting positions on a standard 8x8 board. Kelly's program packages the problem as a single-screen Mac puzzle, suited for short sessions and casual study.Solution existsThe game documents that a complete tour is achievable, so persistence and a little planning are rewarded; brute clicking will not.DistributionKnight is preserved by Macintosh Garden among small Classic Mac board and puzzle games of the early 1990s.