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Place 8 queens onto the chess board, no queen can be attacking any other queen. A queen attacks all cells on its vertical, horizontal or diagonal lines of sight. The eight queens puzzle has 92 distinct solutions on a 8x8 grid. The problem was originally proposed in 1848 by the chess player Max Bazzel. I made this simple algorithm with actionscript that gives a solution. It can find a solution to the n queens puzzle for n = 1 or any n > 3
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