
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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An  $8\times 8$  chessboard is made of unit squares. We put a rectangular piece of paper with sides of length 1 and 2. We say that the paper and a single square overlap if they share an inner point. Determine the maximum number of black squares that can overlap the paper.

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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