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p.boxed
  | Click on an empty square to start the game.
  | The first player unable to move the knight loses.

p.
  White puts a knight on any square of an empty chessboard.
  Black moves the knight, and its initial square vanish:
  the knight will no longer be able to land on that square.
  Play alternates, always with the vanishing initial square condition.
  The first player unable to make a move loses.

figure.diagram-container
  .diagram
    | fen:3xx2x/1x1xNxx1/2xxxxxx/xxxxxx2/2xxxxx1/x1xxxx2/1xxxxx2/1x2xx2 g8,c8:
  figcaption Ng8 wins, but Nc8 loses because it allows Na7.

p
  | Note about the name: when the game ends, the knight has walked on an 
  a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_path") Hamiltonian path
  | &nbsp;considering the subgraph formed by all the removed squares
  | plus the final square.

p
  | Inventor: David Silverman (1971) according to 
  a(href="https://www.jsbeasley.co.uk/encyc.htm")
    | The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants
  | . The game idea is probably quite older.
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	2	\| Click on an empty square to start the game.
	3	\| The first player unable to move the knight loses.
	4
	5	p.
	6	White puts a knight on any square of an empty chessboard.
	7	Black moves the knight, and its initial square vanish:
	8	the knight will no longer be able to land on that square.
	9	Play alternates, always with the vanishing initial square condition.
	10	The first player unable to make a move loses.
	11
	12	figure.diagram-container
	13	.diagram
	14	\| fen:3xx2x/1x1xNxx1/2xxxxxx/xxxxxx2/2xxxxx1/x1xxxx2/1xxxxx2/1x2xx2 g8,c8:
	15	figcaption Ng8 wins, but Nc8 loses because it allows Na7.
	16
	17	p
	18	\| Note about the name: when the game ends, the knight has walked on an
	19	a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_path") Hamiltonian path
	20	\|  considering the subgraph formed by all the removed squares
	21	\| plus the final square.
	22
	23	p
	24	\| Inventor: David Silverman (1971) according to
	25	a(href="https://www.jsbeasley.co.uk/encyc.htm")
	26	\| The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants
	27	\| . The game idea is probably quite older.