300.--THE EIGHT QUEENS.

[Illustration]

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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