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<p>How many knights can you put on a normal 8&#215;8 chessboard so that no knight may take another knight? And can you show that that is the maximum?</p>
<p>This problem was posted at the Dutch mathematics olympiad 1996.</p>
<p>You can check your solution <a href="https://justpuzzles.wordpress.com/solutions-to-puzzles-250-500/#292">here</a> </p>
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