To be eligible for a prize drawing at an upcoming event, participants must solve a chess puzzle by placing 8 queens on a standard chess board so that no queen is able to capture any other queen, either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. The document provides an example of two queens in an invalid position because they are within each other's range of attack, and one queen in a valid position. It also instructs participants to print and cut out the chess queens provided to physically move them around while solving the puzzle.
To be eligible for a prize drawing at an upcoming event, participants must solve a chess puzzle by placing 8 queens on a standard chess board so that no queen is able to capture any other queen, either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. The document provides an example of two queens in an invalid position because they are within each other's range of attack, and one queen in a valid position. It also instructs participants to print and cut out the chess queens provided to physically move them around while solving the puzzle.
To be eligible for a prize drawing at an upcoming event, participants must solve a chess puzzle by placing 8 queens on a standard chess board so that no queen is able to capture any other queen, either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. The document provides an example of two queens in an invalid position because they are within each other's range of attack, and one queen in a valid position. It also instructs participants to print and cut out the chess queens provided to physically move them around while solving the puzzle.
To be eligible for a prize drawing at an upcoming event, participants must solve a chess puzzle by placing 8 queens on a standard chess board so that no queen is able to capture any other queen, either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. The document provides an example of two queens in an invalid position because they are within each other's range of attack, and one queen in a valid position. It also instructs participants to print and cut out the chess queens provided to physically move them around while solving the puzzle.
In order to be eligible for the event’s puzzle prize drawing,
you must solve this chess puzzle. In front of you is a full chess board and 8 queens. Your task is to place each queen on the board so that no queen attacks any other queen. For those that are not familiar with chess, a queen’s attack range extends to any square vertically, horizontally, and di- agonally (ignore the fact that same-color pieces technically do not “attack” one another). Example: The two queens on the dark squares are “attacking” each other since they are within each other’s at- tack range (in this case in-line vertically). Whereas the queen on the white square is not, since it is not in line with any of the others.
To help you solve it,
print this image and cut out the queens to allow you to move them around if you need to. There are multi- ple solutions. Bring this paper to the event cache where your solution will be evaluated and, if deemed correct, your name will be entered into the drawing for a cool geo-prize.