The points of space are coloured with five colours, with all colours being used. Prove that some plane contains four points of different colours.
KURSCHAK 1980
Kürschák Competition 1980.
Other problems
Let be an odd integer. Prove that a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of positive integers and satisfying is that has a prime divisor of the form .
In a certain country there are two tennis clubs consisting of and members respectively. All the members have different playing strength, and the descending order of palying strengths in each club is known. Find a procedure which determines, within games, who is in the st place among the players in these clubs. It is assumed that a stronger player always beats a weaker one.