On Dec 22, 11:05 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Only 5? The classic algorithm is 8-queens on a standard 8x8 board, > as I recall...
This is a different problem. You have to control all the squares with only 5 queens. In the 8 queens problem you have to put 8 "safe queens". I also have it on my website at http://www.cf29.com/design/dame_eng.php I know about the Wikipedia 8 queens solution and it is how I discovered Python. I wanted to learn more about it to try to modify this script for the 5 queens problem. It helped me to go as far as I did with my 5 queens script but the 8 queens script only considers a number of queens equal to the number of rows. In the 5 queens problem, there are 8 rows and 3 of them are empty. It may be not particularly related to Python so may be my message is misplaced. Thanks for the help anyway. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
