Let $n$ be a positive integer. In how many ways can we mark cells on an $n\times n$ board such that no two rows and no two columns have the same number of marked cells? [i]Selim Bahadir, Turkey[/i]

On a square of a chessboard there is a pawn . Two players take turns to move it to another square, subject to the rule that , at each move the distance moved is strictly greater than that of the previous move. A player loses when unable to make a move on his turn. Who wins if the players always choose the best strategy? (The pawn is always placed in the centre of its square. ) ( F . L . Nazarov)

2500 chess kings have to be placed on a $100 \times 100$ chessboard so that [b](i)[/b] no king can capture any other one (i.e. no two kings are placed in two squares sharing a common vertex); [b](ii)[/b] each row and each column contains exactly 25 kings. Find the number of such arrangements. (Two arrangements differing by rotation or symmetry are supposed to be different.) [i]Proposed by Sergei Berlov, Russia[/i]

The fields of an $n\times n$ chess board are colored black and white, such that in every small $2\times 2$-square both colors should be the same number. How many there possibilities are for this?

A "labyrinth" is an $8 \times 8$ chessboard with walls between some neighboring squares. If a rook can traverse the entire board without jumping over the walls, the labyrinth is "good" ; otherwise it is "bad" . Are there more good labyrinths or bad labyrinths? (A Shapovalov)

A knight stands on an infinite chess board. Find all places it can reach in exactly $2n$ moves.

Let $ n$ and $ k$ be positive integers such that $ \frac{1}{2} n < k \leq \frac{2}{3} n.$ Find the least number $ m$ for which it is possible to place $ m$ pawns on $ m$ squares of an $ n \times n$ chessboard so that no column or row contains a block of $ k$ adjacent unoccupied squares.

Jiiri and Mari both wish to tile an $n \times n$ chessboard with cards shown in the picture (each card covers exactly one square). Jiiri wants that for each two cards that have a common edge, the neighbouring parts are of different color, and Mari wants that the neighbouring parts are always of the same color. How many possibilities does Jiiri have to tile the chessboard and how many possibilities does Mari have? [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/7/3/9c076eb17ba7ae7c000a2893c83288a94df384.png[/img]

Find the smallest $n$ such that in an $8\times 8$ chessboard any $n$ cells contain two cells which are at least $3$ knight moves apart from each other.

Consider a chessboard $6 \times 6$, made up of $36$ single squares. We want to place $6$ chess rooks on this board, one rook on each square, so that there are no two rooks on the same row, nor two rooks on the same column. Note that, once the rooks have been placed in this way, we have that, for every square where a rook has not been placed, there is a rook in the same row as it and a rook in the same column as it. We will say that such rooks are in line with this square. For each of those $30$ houses without rooks, color it green if the two rooks aligned with that same house are the same distance from it, and color it yellow otherwise. For example, when we place the $6$ rooks ($T$) as below, we have: (a) Is it possible to place the rooks so that there are $30$ green squares? (b) Is it possible to place the rooks so that there are $30$ yellow squares? (c) Is it possible to place the rooks so that there are $15$ green and $15$ yellow squares?

How many ways can $ 8$ mutually non-attacking rooks be placed on the $ 9\times9$ chessboard (shown here) so that all $ 8$ rooks are on squares of the same color? (Two rooks are said to be attacking each other if they are placed in the same row or column of the board.) [asy]unitsize(3mm); defaultpen(white); fill(scale(9)*unitsquare,black); fill(shift(1,0)*unitsquare); fill(shift(3,0)*unitsquare); fill(shift(5,0)*unitsquare); fill(shift(7,0)*unitsquare); fill(shift(0,1)*unitsquare); fill(shift(2,1)*unitsquare); fill(shift(4,1)*unitsquare); fill(shift(6,1)*unitsquare); fill(shift(8,1)*unitsquare); fill(shift(1,2)*unitsquare); fill(shift(3,2)*unitsquare); fill(shift(5,2)*unitsquare); fill(shift(7,2)*unitsquare); fill(shift(0,3)*unitsquare); fill(shift(2,3)*unitsquare); fill(shift(4,3)*unitsquare); fill(shift(6,3)*unitsquare); fill(shift(8,3)*unitsquare); fill(shift(1,4)*unitsquare); fill(shift(3,4)*unitsquare); fill(shift(5,4)*unitsquare); fill(shift(7,4)*unitsquare); fill(shift(0,5)*unitsquare); fill(shift(2,5)*unitsquare); fill(shift(4,5)*unitsquare); fill(shift(6,5)*unitsquare); fill(shift(8,5)*unitsquare); fill(shift(1,6)*unitsquare); fill(shift(3,6)*unitsquare); fill(shift(5,6)*unitsquare); fill(shift(7,6)*unitsquare); fill(shift(0,7)*unitsquare); fill(shift(2,7)*unitsquare); fill(shift(4,7)*unitsquare); fill(shift(6,7)*unitsquare); fill(shift(8,7)*unitsquare); fill(shift(1,8)*unitsquare); fill(shift(3,8)*unitsquare); fill(shift(5,8)*unitsquare); fill(shift(7,8)*unitsquare); draw(scale(9)*unitsquare,black);[/asy]

On a chess board, the boundaries of the squares are assumed to be black. Draw a circle of the greatest possible radius lying entirely on the black squares.

What is the smallest number of squares of a chess board that can be marked in such a manner that (a) no two marked squares may have a common side or a common vertex, and (b) any unmarked square has a common side or a common vertex with at least one marked square? Indicate a specific configuration of marked squares satisfying (a) and (b) and show that a lesser number of marked squares will not suffice. (A. Andjans, Riga)

Bishops on a chessboard move along the diagonals ( that is , on lines parallel to the two main diagonals ) . Prove that the maximum number of non-attacking bishops on an $n*n$ chessboard is $2n-2$. (Two bishops are said to be attacking if they are on a common diagonal).

What maximal number of the men in checkers game can be put on the chess-board $8\times 8$ so, that every man can be taken by at least one other man ?

Consider an infinite grid $\mathcal G$ of unit square cells. A [i]chessboard polygon[/i] is a simple polygon (i.e. not self-intersecting) whose sides lie along the gridlines of $\mathcal G$. Nikolai chooses a chessboard polygon $F$ and challenges you to paint some cells of $\mathcal G$ green, such that any chessboard polygon congruent to $F$ has at least $1$ green cell but at most $2020$ green cells. Can Nikolai choose $F$ to make your job impossible? [i]Nikolai Beluhov[/i]

Ayman wants to color the cells of a $50 \times 50$ chessboard into black and white so that each $2 \times 3$ or $3 \times 2$ rectangle contains an even number of white cells. Determine the number of ways Ayman can color the chessboard.

What is the maximum number of 1 × 1 boxes that can be colored black in a n × n chessboard so that any 2 × 2 square contains a maximum of 2 black boxes?

A number is written in each square of a chessboard, so that each number not on the border is the mean of the $4$ neighboring numbers. Show that if the largest number is $N$, then there is a number equal to $N$ in the border squares.

In chess, a king threatens another king if, and only if, they are on neighboring squares, whether horizontally, vertically, or diagonally . Find the greatest amount of kings that can be placed on a $12 \times 12$ board such that each king threatens just another king. Here, we are not considering part colors, that is, consider that the king are all, say, white, and that kings of the same color can threaten each other.

Player $A$ and player $B$ play the next game on an $8$ by $8$ square chessboard. They in turn color a field that is not yet colored. One player uses red and the other blue. Player $A$ starts. The winner is the first person to color the four squares of a square of $2$ by $2$ squares with his color somewhere on the board. Prove that player $B$ can always prevent player $A$ from winning.

Let $n$ be a positive integer. There is a pawn in one of the cells of an $n\times n$ table. The pawn moves from an arbitrary cell of the $k$th column, $k \in \{1,2, \cdots, n \}$, to an arbitrary cell in the $k$th row. Prove that there exists a sequence of $n^{2}$ moves such that the pawn goes through every cell of the table and finishes in the starting cell.

Given a chessboard that is infinite in all directions. Is it possible to place an infinite number of queens on it so that on each horizontally, on each vertical and on each diagonal of both directions (i.e. on a set of cells located at an angle of $45^o$ or $135^o$ to the horizontal) was exactly one queen?

Some squares of an $n \times n$ chessboard have been marked ($n \in N^*$). Prove that if the number of marked squares is at least $n\left(\sqrt{n} + \frac12\right)$, then there exists a rectangle whose vertices are centers of marked squares.

On an $8 \times 8$ chessboard, a rook stands on the bottom left corner square. We want to move it to the upper right corner, subject to the following rules: we have to move the rook exactly $9$ times, such that the length of each move is either $3$ or $4$. (It is allowed to mix the two lengths throughout the "journey".) How many ways are there to do this? In each move, the rook moves horizontally or vertically.