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ASU 229 All Soviet Union MO 1976 beetle on a 99x99 chessboard

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July 6, 2019
Chessboardcombinatoricscombinatorial geometry

Problem Statement

Given a chess-board 99×9999\times 99 with a set FF of fields marked on it (the set is different in three tasks). There is a beetle sitting on every field of the set FF. Suddenly all the beetles have raised into the air and flied to another fields of the same set. The beetles from the neighbouring fields have landed either on the same field or on the neighbouring ones (may be far from their starting point). (We consider the fields to be neighbouring if they have at least one common vertex.) Consider a statement:
"There is a beetle, that either stayed on the same field or moved to the neighbouring one".
Is it always valid if the figure FF is:
a) A central cross, i.e. the union of the 5050-th row and the 5050-th column?
b) A window frame, i.e. the union of the 11-st, 5050-th and 9999-th rows and the 11-st, 5050-th and 9999-th columns?
c) All the chess-board?