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On the Eight Queens Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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This is the problem discussed in my paper bearing the not very happy title “On the different non-linear arrangements of eight men on a chess-board”, which was read to the Edinburgh Mathematical Society on 14th March 1890, and is printed in its Transactions, Vol. VIII, p. 30. At that time I was not aware that the problem had been discussed by any previous writer, and I treated it as an entirely new one. I have since learnt that a good deal has been written about it, and I propose on the present occasion to give briefly the history of the problem, and the results which have been arrived at; also to communicate some new results which I have obtained.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1898

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* I found it was of great assistance in working with a board of 11 squares in a side, to have series of lines ruled on the board parallel to the two diagonals, and drawn with black and red ink alternately.