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Let denote the knight graph: knight moves on an board, where is always assumed. The graph is always bipartite. A bipartite graph having the property that one can get from any point in one part to any point in the other part using a Hamiltonian path is called Hamilton-laceable. This Demonstration shows that is Hamilton-laceable, thus extending the very old result that is Hamiltonian.

By a theorem of A. Schwenk [1], the collection of graphs that admit Hamiltonian cycles consists of with and even; with odd, , and even; and with even and . Of these, I have shown that the following are not laceable: , , , , and , while the following are laceable: , , , , , and . Thus, one conjecture is that the Hamiltonian graph is laceable iff .

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[1] A. Schwenk, "Which Rectangular Chessboards Have a Knight’s Tour?," Mathematics Magazine, 64(5), 1991 pp. 325–332. www.jstor.org/stable/2690649.