Eight Queens Task
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An Eight Queens Task is an n-Queens Task with n=8 (on a standard chess board).
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle Retrieved:2015-12-13.
- The 'eight queens puzzle is the problem of placing eight chess queens on an 8×8 chessboard so that no two queens threaten 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 n×n chessboard, where solutions exist for all natural numbers n with the exception of n=2 and n=3. [1]