Can you place 8 queens in a chess board, without interfering each others way?

Question

Can you place 8 queens in a chess board, without interfering each others way?

Answer 1

yes, easily

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queen...

Answer 2

Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queen... to finish your trouble. There is some solutions there. You can use them as guide to play 8 queens.

Answer 3

8 queens ,,,,,,,

you are appropriating the game of checkers to that of chess

Answer 4

maybe

Answer 5

No but the odds of getting eight queens is very slim as pawns are usually cannon fodder.

Answer 6

Hi,

     You may like to have a look at 'Queen' on my web page - link below?  I hope this is helpful for you.

Yours sincerely,

Chesmayne.

Answer 7

I thought the limit was 3 queens per side so max would be 6...

Answer 8

Your never get to 8 queens because some will get capture or 7 pawns making it to the other end will take too long.  

The person will quit before you have that chaces. Because I tried it onces.

Answer 9

yes -- you are talking about the "8 queens problem"

which can be stated as can you place 8 queens on a chess board so that none of them threaten each other.

to experiment on a real chess board use pawns

if i remember correctly, when you factor out rotations and reflections then there are over 2000 solutions

cool puzzle -- have fun!

Answer 10

Most the queens I know are 6 foot tall 190 or so Lbs. They'd never fit.

Answer 11

Yes, shanti, it is possible! I saw in the past, but I do not remember where.