John Ferrell wrote:
> That brings to mind a Lab Project I did in the mid 1980's. The
> problem was to place 8 Queens on a chess board with no jeopardy, a
> classic puzzle. The language was LISP. 40 line of code in 42 hours on
> a VAX.

A little common sense and no lines of code I did it in a few minutes.  It's
interesting that I would have thought it impossible if someone had asked me
before having thought about the problem.

My first reaction was to put the first queen in a corner since it would
cover the least squares, but that led to problems.  After realizing not to
put a queen in a corner and to try to space them knight moves apart a answer
fell out pretty quickly (third attempt overall, including the queen in the
corner).


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