[dba-Tech] 8 Queen's Problem

[John Colby]

you have more time than I.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 2:00 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> To even understand this problem, you must first understand at least a
> little bit about chess. Assuming that, here is the problem. Remove all
> pieces from the board and then choose eight pawns. (Mix the colures if you
> wish.) Now, pretend they are Queens, Finally, position them such that no
> Queen can take another Queen. There are 92 different solutions. I found one
> in 3 minutes and 45 seconds. (Oh, I forgot -- reflection and rotation
> solutions do not count; so, we have 92 solutions. I found just one but did
> it in 3:45 minutes.
> try it. It's not simple but I have a shortcut, which I'm not spelling. I
> now plan to direct some part of today to trying to discover another.
> Then comes the N-Queens problem. At this point, N < 8 is trivial, but as
> you increase n, the problem gets increasingly complex. At a 20x20 board I
> am way way over my depth.
>
> --
> Arthur
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John W. Colby
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