Question

(Eight Queens) Another puzzler for chess buffs is the Eight Queens problem. Simply stated: Is it possible to place eight queens on an empty chessboard so that no queen is "attacking" any other, i.e., no two queens are in the same row, the same column, or along the same diagonal?

Answer 1

Yes, you might want to read http://bridges.canterbury.ac.nz/features/eight.html BUT before reading solutions i would like you to do try to write code and test it using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtracking.