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by sicariusnoctis 877 days ago
A very interesting property:

Knights have odd-even parity, i.e., they attack only opposite colored squares.

Pop quiz: How many knights can you place on a board so that they don't attack each other?

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Well, since a knight on a white square can only attack knights on black squares, and half of the 64 squares are white...