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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)

See The Solution Submitted by Raveen    
Rating: 3.4615 (13 votes)

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ANSWER!! | Comment 2 of 17 |
This is my first time actually solivng one of these quiz. You can put the queens on B4,B5,C5,E4,and E3. For the pawns you can put them on A1,A2,and D1. I'm sure there are at least 3 more other ways(could be more)to solve this.
  Posted by ... on 2002-12-26 05:54:43
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