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2022 SSMO Relay Round 5 Problems/Problem 1

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Problem

Consider an $8\times 8$ chessboard with a knight in one of the center squares. The knight may move in an $L$-shaped fashion, going two squares in one direction and one square in a perpendicular direction, but cannot go outside the chessboard. How many squares can the knight reach in exactly two moves?

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