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New directions in enumerative chess problems
Noam D. Elkies
Normally a chess problem must have a unique solution, and is deemed unsound even if there are alternatives that differ only in the order in which the same moves are played. In an e…
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The Mathieu group and its pseudogroup extension
John H. Conway, Noam D. Elkies, Jeremy L. Martin
We study a construction of the Mathieu group using a game reminiscent of Loyd's ``15-puzzle''. The elements of are realized as permutations on~12 of the~13 points…