What is the highest number of queens you could put on a chessboard such that none of them could attack another. (So none of them shared a row, column, or diagonal.)
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8 using Stienhaus’ formulas.
You only need 5 howver to cover every square and also have no queen able to attack another.
Vardi had a general solutions for the queens problem based on a nxn sized board.
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I love the wonderfully elaborate answers.
8
Yep. And there will be another chess related question coming up another day.