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Safety from the queen (Posted on 2002-12-12) Difficulty: 2 of 5
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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)

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solution, although i havnt read other comments yet | Comment 12 of 17 |
so it may have already been mentioned. but put a queen in each corner and then one in the center(C3) adn four spaces are left, i would say that this is the simplest answer to the question.
  Posted by becca on 2004-06-03 20:39:38
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