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(Message started by: mikedagr8 on Aug 1^st, 2007, 1:09am)

Title: 5*5 chess
Post by mikedagr8 on Aug 1^st, 2007, 1:09am

Consider a 5*5 version of a chessboard with one player having 5 queens and the other player 3 queens. There are no other pieces. Place the queens so that neither player's queens can capture the opponents.

Title: Re: 5*5 chess
Post by balakrishnan on Aug 1^st, 2007, 5:20pm

[hide]
0 0 0 2 2
1 1 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 2
0 1 1 0 0[/hide]

where 1 is player 1 and 2 is player 2

Title: Re: 5*5 chess
Post by mikedagr8 on Aug 1^st, 2007, 11:27pm

Correct.

Title: Re: 5*5 chess
Post by srn347 on Aug 31^st, 2007, 11:44pm

The amount of solutions is a multiple of 4.

Title: Re: 5*5 chess
Post by mikedagr8 on Sep 1^st, 2007, 2:20am

Yes, is it because theat one can be rotated 3 times? ::)