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Problem 42. Checkerboard with removed cells

Prove that an 8x8 checkerboard with two opposite corner cells removed cannot be covered without overlapping by 1x2 dominos.

Hint. Two cells covered by a domino are of opposite colors.

Posted by Sergey Sobolev at 3/16/2008 08:15:00 PM

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