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Black Bishop Graph


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A black bishop graph is a graph formed from possible moves of a bishop chess piece, which may make diagonal moves of any length on a chessboard (or any other board), when starting from a black square on the board. To form the graph, each chessboard square is considered a vertex, and vertices connected by allowable bishop moves are considered edges.

The (m,n)-black bishop graph is therefore a connected component of the general (m,n)-bishop graph. It is isomorphic to the (m,n)-white bishop graph unless both m and n are odd.

Note that here, "white" and "black" refer to the color of the squares a given bishop moves on irrespective of the color of the bishop piece itself.

Special cases are summarized in the following table.

Rather surprisingly, the n×(n+1) black bishop graph is isomorphic to the n-triangular honeycomb bishop graph (Wagon 2014).

Stan Wagon (pers. comm., Dec. 5, 2018) considered the set of graphs with vertices corresponding to all subsets of the integers 1, ..., n-k of size n-1 and with edges between vertices that agree as vectors in exactly one position. Wagon noted that the graphs with n=3 correspond to the (k+2,k+3)-black bishop graphs.


See also

Bishop Graph, King Graph, Knight Graph, Rook Graph, Triangular Honeycomb Bishop Graph, White Bishop Graph

This entry contributed by Stan Wagon

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References

House of Graphs. Black Bishop Graphs. (4, 4), (5, 5), (5, 6), (6, 6), (6, 7), and others.Wagon, S. "Graph Theory Problems from Hexagonal and Traditional Chess." College Math. J. 45, 278-287, 2014.

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Weisstein, Eric W., with contributions by Stan Wagon. "Black Bishop Graph." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BlackBishopGraph.html

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