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Instructions & Controls:

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. Nick Kouvaris made this simple algorithm with actionscript that gives a solution. Click here for more information about this classic problem.

Author Info:

Nick Kouvaris (Lightforce Games) © 2005