Using only half of a chess board you may place five queens anywhere. After you place them, I move each queen at most once with standard queen moves. If I make a horizontal five-in-a-row, I win. Can you beat me?

(In reply to clarification by Tristan)

With that clarification, I get the following arrangement that beats you:

Queens at {a1, a2, f1, h1, h2}

(Standard chess algebraic notation)  

[I could be wrong]

 

 

 

Edited on October 24, 2006, 11:33 pm

Posted by Penny on 2006-10-24 23:25:12