Consider the squares of an $8 \times 8$ chessboard filled with the numbers $1,2,3,4 \ldots ,64$ in sequential order.
If we choose $8$ squares with the property that there is exactly $1$ from each row and exactly $1$ from each column, and add up the numbers in the chosen squares, show that the sum obtained is always $260$.
Please provide full solution and explanation.
If we put the numbers in sequential order, the numbers of the row $i$ are of the form $$8i + j $$ $$i \in \lbrace 0,1,2, \ldots 7\rbrace$$ $$j \in \lbrace 1,2,, \ldots 8\rbrace$$
If we choose $8$ squares with the property that there is exactly one from each row and exactly one from each column, with this notation the total is $$8 \cdot \biggl( \sum_{i=0}^{7}i \biggr) + \sum_{j=1}^{8} j = 260$$