Exercise 20.

Suppose you have an \(n\times n\) chessboard but your dog has eaten one of the corner squares. Can you still cover the remaining squares with dominoes? What needs to be true about \(n\text{?}\) Give necessary and sufficient conditions (that is, say exactly which values of \(n\) work and which do not work). Prove your answers.

An 8 by 8 chessboard with the top-right corner square removed.  Every other square is shaded darker (checkerboard pattern).
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