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Show how to swap the two pairs of knights on the following strangely-shaped grid. That is, the knights make one move at a time, and you’re trying to get the black nights to where the white knights are, and the white knights to where the black knights are.

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Let \(n\) be a positive integer. Prove that it’s impossible to have a closed knight’s tour on a \(4\times n\) grid.