
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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Suppose that at some point Joe B. has placed 2 black knights on the original board, but gets bored of chess. He now decides to cover the 34 remaining squares with 17 dominos so that no two overlap and the dominos cover the entire rest of the board. For how many initial arrangements of the two pieces is this possible?

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