Non-attacking Queen and Rook Placements
Abstract
In 1848, Max Bezel introduced the problem of placing 8 queens on an 8 × 8 chess board so that none of the queens could attack each other. One generalization of this — the placement of n non-attacking queens on an n × n chess board — is the famous n-queens problem. A different but similar problem is that of placing non-attacking rooks on a generalized chess board which has connections to restricted permutations and has more general solutions known as compared to its queen counterpart. In this presentation, we investigate the intersection of these two problems — placing n pieces (either queens or rooks) on an n × n board.
This paper has been withdrawn.
