dominos. In 1961, British physicist M.E.Fisher provedthat it can be done in 12988816 ways.
There are many ways to cover a chess board completely withNow let us cut out two diagonally opposite corner squares. In how many ways can you cover the 62 squares of the mutilated chess board ?
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Let us colour the 2 * 1 dominoes into a black and a white pair each.Now we are cutting two diagonally opposite squares. let these two be both black (note that both has to be of same colour.).so now we have 32 white and 30 black squares on the chess board. Obviously its impossible to fill the mutilated chess board,as on placing dominoes,number of black and white squares must be equal.