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5 X 5 Chess Board Puzzle
You have a 5 x 5 chess board. You must place 5 queens so that you can place three pawns on the board and they will not be taken.
Answer
In (row, column) formatQueens:
(1,3)
(2,1)
(1,4)
(3,1)
(2,4)
Pawns:
(4,5)
(5,5)
(5,2)
The board can also be rotated for all of the different positions.
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I would not have figured that out if my life depended on it. ( but it would probably help if I played chess
I'm not a chess whiz or a cheese whiz but if you put a queen at each of the four corners, you leave four positions unthreatened around the middle. You could then place the 5th queen..err..maybe I am a cheese whiz .. nice puzzle!
I enjoyed this one thoroughly! Brilliant.
Uhh... it was ok. There wasn't really any bright trick to this puzzle.
so stupid and naieve. lol.
libra0890
libra0890
jk im not much of a chess fan.
libra0890
libra0890
It was a toughy.
That was a good one. U don't need to be a chess wiz to figure that one out.
May 11, 2005
it was pretty hard but it probably was that i can bearely play chess
what would a pawn be doing in a corner?
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