300.--THE EIGHT QUEENS.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

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The solution to this puzzle is shown in the diagram. It will be found that no queen attacks another, and also that no three queens are in a straight line in any oblique direction. This is the only arrangement out of the twelve fundamentally different ways of placing eight queens without attack that fulfils the last condition.

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