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>>>>> Michael Hopwood <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm no chess OR maths expert but - surely they are not actually chess > queens if any two of the same colour can threaten each other? The > puzzle using actual chess queens, at least one of which is of the > other colour, would look quite different... AIUI, for the purposes of this puzzle, /each/ of the queens is assumed to be of its own distinct colour. --cut: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle -- The eight queens puzzle is the problem of placing eight chess queens on an 8C8 chessboard so that no two queens attack each other. Thus, a solution requires that no two queens share the same row, column, or diagonal. The eight queens puzzle is an example of the more general n-queens problem of placing n queens on an nCn chessboard, where solutions exist for all natural numbers n with the exception of 2 and 3. --cut: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle -- -- FSF associate member #7257
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