Queens Chess Challenge - Small Basic

First published on MSDN on Jan 11, 2013

Authored by Ed Price

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The 8-Queens problem in chess is to place 8 queens on a chess board such that none of the queens is threatening any of the others.  The problem is to input the 8 columns of the queens on the rows of a chess board, with 1 being the first column and 8 being the last, e.g. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 means the queens are along the diagonal, which would not be a valid solution.

More Info about this problem

Write a program to test a user input guess.

Examples:

• Enter board configuration: 2 4 6 8 3 1 7 5 - This is a valid configuration (as above).


• Enter board configuration: 1 8 2 5 3 7 4 6 - This is NOT a valid configuration.