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Safety from the queen (Posted on 2002-12-12)

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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)

See The Solution Submitted by Raveen

Rating: 3.4615 (13 votes)

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Subject	Author	Date
Puzzle Solution	K Sengupta	2022-06-30 00:44:19
Solution and proof	Ken Haley	2004-09-27 01:17:54
re: Another solution	Ken Haley	2004-09-27 01:05:29
Another solution	David Shin	2004-09-27 00:32:46
re: solution, although i havnt read other comments yet	Syzygy	2004-09-24 12:06:24
solution, although i havnt read other comments yet	becca	2004-06-03 20:39:38
re(2): solution by logischer Verstand	logischer Verstand	2004-04-28 19:42:27
re: solution by logischer Verstand	kirk smith	2004-04-17 16:47:37
solution(2) to "safety from the queen"	kirk smith	2004-04-17 16:36:29
solution	logischer Verstand	2004-04-10 17:01:08
re(2): Solution	Claire	2003-09-18 23:15:53
re: Solution	Gamer	2003-09-01 09:39:08
Solution	Lawrence	2003-08-31 21:59:21
Another viewpoint	DJ	2003-03-01 10:15:17
No Subject	sarah	2003-01-09 09:14:26
ANSWER!!	...	2002-12-26 05:54:43
No Subject	Jen	2002-12-12 18:52:17

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