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Swap the white and the black figures.
wap the black and white knights in the fewest moves
Swap the white and the black figures.
Swap the white and the black figures.
You Win!
Single-tiled paths as a chessboard is always a special type of boards for chess problems. This is one of it. Moreover, at 3 junctions the parts of the board are connected diagonally only. The four islands in the 2-3-2-3 chain makes it a stylized letter G.
This unusual board can cause a fork in solver's perception - the puzzle is either straightforward and trivial, or doesn't have a valid solution at all. In a couple of moves it can be easily discovered both initial perceptions are wrong. The challenge is solvable but non-trivial in any particular way.
Chess problems like this one train logical and abstract thinking, develop imagination. You'll experience them all here. Chess puzzles are used to consolidate knowledge in the process of learning chess. Don't hesitate to hit the Restart button and start over again each time you find yourself in a "blind alley" here.
Counting a consecutive series of leaps of a knight as one move, can you exchange the knights in exactly 11 moves?