5 queens

Jervis Liang arcphi at gmail.com
Sat Dec 22 17:39:15 EST 2007


On Dec 22, 2:36 pm, cf29 <fcharlypil... at gmail.com> wrote:

> The goal is to control all the chess board with five queens that do
> not attack each other. I found "manually" many solutions to this
> problem (184 until now)

How did you find 184 solutions? Wolfram says there are 91 distinct
solutions for 5-queens on an 8x8 board with no two queens attacking
each other.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QueensProblem.html



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