[16.4] Divide an chessboard with alternating black and white squares into rectangles, keeping the squares intact, and satisfying the following conditions:
(i) Each rectangle contains an equal number of white and black squares;
(ii) Let be the number of white squares in the -th rectangle, then . Determine the maximum value of that satisfies these conditions, and for this maximum value of , find all possible values of .
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