A special case of the closed walk where all visited squares (except first and last) are different and not all of them belong to the same rank, file, or diagonal.
See also: Closed walk; Linear cycle; Tempo rundlauf.
Alias: Round trip; Rundlauf (Ger.).
Abdurahmanović, Fadil
Die Schwalbe, 1962 (v)
Prize
1...Sxa4
2.b5
Sb6
3.Kb3
Sd7
4.Ka4
Sc5#
1.Kb1
Bxd4
2.Kc2
Be3
3.Kc3
Bc1
4.Kd4
Bb2#
Atanackovic, Branko
Abdurahmanović, Fadil
Probleemblad, 1963
1st Prize
a) 1.Kf4
Sxd5+
2.Ke4
Sxe7
3.Bd6
Sg8
4.Kd5
Sf6#
b) 1.e4
Bxd4
2.Kf4
Bc5
3.Ke5
Bxe7
4.Kd4
Bf6#
c) 1.Kg4
Rxe6
2.Kf5
Rxe7
3.Kg6
Rf7
4.Kh6
Rf6#
Linss, Torsten
Paliulionis, Viktoras
Die Schwalbe, 2020
1st Prize
1...Bh4
2.Kd6
Bd8
3.g5
Ba5
4.g4
Bd2
5.Bg5
Be3
6.Rf5
Bf2
7.Ke5
Bh4
8.Kf4
Kf2
9.Re4
Bg3#
Jonsson, Bernt Christer
Kummer, Eckart
Schöneberg, Achim
Šachová skladba, 2007
1st Prize
a) 1...Sxf6+
2.Ke5
Sd5
3.Re7
Se3
4.Kf6
Sg4#
b) 1...Bxf5
2.e5
Bg6
3.Ke6
Bh5
4.Kf5
Bg4#
c) 1...Rxf4
2.Qe5
Rf3
3.Ke4
Rxg3
4.Kf4
Rg4#
Maslar, Zdravko
Die Schwalbe, 1965
4th Prize
1...Be6
2.Sc5
Bc8
3.Kd5
Ba6
4.Sd4
Bc4#
1.Kc5
Bb3
2.Sd4
Ba4
3.Kd5
Bb5
4.Sc5
Bc4#
Arnold, Randolf
Schach-Aktiv, H. Zajic-70 JT, 2005
1st Prize
1...Re5
2.Ba5
bxa5
3.b4+
Re2
4.Kb5
Rd2
5.Sc6
Rd5#
Ott, Markus Johannes
Rehm, Hans Peter
feenschach, 2007
Spec. Prize
1...Kh2
2.Bd4
Kg2
3.e3
Kg3+
4.Re4
Kf3
5.Re5
Kg2
6.Ke4
Kg3#
Ott, Markus Johannes
feenschach, 1993
3rd HM
1.Qf4
Bg6
2.Bd1
Be8
3.Ke4
Ba4
4.Bf3
Bc2#
1.Kf4
Bf6
2.Bh6
Be7
3.Ke5
Bf8
4.Bf4
Bg7#
Kirtley, Mark
U.S. Problem Bulletin, 1997
1st-2nd Prize
a) 1...Sa5
2.Rb5
Sxb3
3.Qc2+
Sd2
4.Qa4
Sf3
5.Ka5
Se5
6.Bb6
Sc6#
b) 1...Se7
2.Ka5
Sxg6
3.Bb6
Sh4
4.Qe4+
Sf3
5.Qa4
Sd4
6.Rb5
Sc6#
Luce, Sébastien
Die Schwalbe, TT-214, 2019
2nd HM
1...Sf6
2.Sg5
Sxh5
3.Kf3
Sf4
4.Kg4
Sd5
5.Kh5
Sf6#
1...Sc7
2.Kd3
Sxa6
3.Kc4
Sb4
4.Kb5
Sd5
5.Ka6
Sc7#
Paliulionis, Viktoras
harmonie-aktiv, 2013
1st HM
1...Bc2
2.d5
Bg6
3.Re7
Be8
4.Re1
Kc7
5.Kf3
Kd6
6.Ke2
Ke5
7.Kd1+
Kd4
8.Qe2
Kc3
9.d4+
Kb3
10.d3
Ba4
11.d2
Kb2#
Paliulionis, Viktoras
M. G. Garcia-65 JT (h#n), 2013
2nd Prize
1...Bd8
2.Qa8
Kb5
3.Kb8
Kc4
4.d5+
Kd3
5.d4
Kxe2
6.d3+
Ke3
7.d2
Kd4
8.d1=B
Kc5
9.Bg4
Kb6
10.Bc8
Bc7#
Lois, Jorge Joaquín
Kapros, Jorge Marcelo
StrateGems, 2010
1st Prize
1...Bxe4
2.a1=B
Bxc6
3.Be5
Bb5
4.Kb7
Bd3
5.Kc6
Bxf5
6.Kd5
Bg4
7.Ke4
Be2
8.Kf5
Bd3#