Consider a 5 by 5 Chess Board. Is it possible to place
5 Queens on the board such that three pawns can safely
be placed on the board? (aka, by carefully choosing where
to place the 5 queens, can you arrange it so that there
are 3 squares on the board that none of the queens can
attack)
(From - http://www.princeton.edu/~sjmiller/riddles/riddles.html)
QAAAQ
AAPAA
AAAPA
AAPAA
QQAAQ
Q=Queen
A=Under attack
P=Pawn
to see a better illustration of this,
click here to see it on my website.
~kirk~
Edited on April 17, 2004, 5:08 pm
solution(2) to "safety from the queen"
