A crowded little chess puzzle
by John from John D. Cook on (#6X89J)
Here's a puzzle by Martin Garnder [1].
Can a queen, king, rook, bishop, and knight be placed on a 4^2 board so no piece attacks another?
There are two solutions, plus symmetries.
Note that in all non-attacking chess puzzles, the colors of the pieces are irrelevant. In the solutions I chose the piece colors to be the opposite of the square colors strictly for aesthetic reasons.
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[1] Martin Gardner. Some New Results on Nonattacking Chess Tasks. Math Horizons. February 2001, pp 10-12.
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