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Chess – Knight’s Tour Implementation in C++

This C++ program is tour of knight on 64 square of chess board.  The goal is to place a knight on an empty chess board and then move the knight to each of the remaining 63 squares while only visiting each square once.  If on visiting the last square the knight is able to hop to the square on which it first started it is known as a closed tour (and so the knight could resume the exact same sequence of moves to complete another tour) while if the knight is unable to hop to the original square, it is known as an open tour. 

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