Problem

Source: Switzerland - 2018 Swiss MO Final Round p1

Tags: combinatorics, Coloring



The cells of an $8\times 8$ chessboard are all coloured in white. A move consists in inverting the colours of a rectangle $1 \times 3$ horizontal or vertical (the white cells become black and conversely). Is it possible to colour all the cells of the chessboard in black in a finite number of moves ?