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Mandrake wrote:Probably not feasible but how about a large chessboard made out of black and white tissue paper on a frame, held vertically by lovely assitants and you just punch your way through each square as you come to it? Could be quite spectacular as long as you don’t make a mistake and need to track back a move or two!

Hey i like that idea, especially if it was possible to do it blindfold, though not sure how? Would be a good striking visual thing though, very aggresive

Magic Mark wrote:Where abouts in Leeds are you from?

Live in woodhouse, i see your a skiptonite

Indeed, and I work on Burley road in the City!!!

A little off-topic, but what's Leeds like? I should be going to uni there next year and I'm quite looking forward to it, I hear the nightlife's fantastic!

Lyncho wrote:A little off-topic, but what's Leeds like? I should be going to uni there next year and I'm quite looking forward to it, I hear the nightlife's fantastic!

Leeds is amazing honestly you'll love it it's unlike any place ive lived before

Sorry for bringing up old threads, (but isn't that kinda what the search function is for?)

This is something that has just recently started to interest me and something that I have begun actually focusing my attention on. I did a similar thing with the rubik's cube a little over a year ago and can now comfortably solve any scrambled cube within 2 minutes.

I already can very very easily and simply solve a knight's tour from any square on the board. I can either choose to end up on the same square as I started (65) or finish on another predetermined square, either chosen by spectator or possibly as a prediction.

One idea I have had, is to add an element of danger like the smash and stab plot, or a borrowed item in an envelope etc Where the starting position is randomly selected, and one position is the "hot spot" so to speak, that I have to avoid whilst visiting each and every other space on the board. (Easily done, just plot the route so that is the last position.)

Which do you like the sound of better? That the hot spot is known to the audience before I begin but not by me? That I already know and make clear to everyone that I am going to end on a certain spot? Or that I complete the tour, and then show that it's a good thing I left that position until last?

The idea sounds great.
I don't know how big is your budget, but if you have enough money (or you know someone who works in a flowers shop) you might want to try squares of artificial grass. Place them on the soil in the right pattern, and you have a checkerboard of brown and green.

Are you going to be the knight yourself?

Hehe, if I could afford to re-turf an area I may as well splurge and load one of the spots with a claymoore.