--[[ MIT License Copyright (c) 2017 Gabriel de Quadros Ligneul Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. ]] local function prequire(name) local success, result = pcall(require, name); return if success then result else nil end local bench = script and require(script.Parent.bench_support) or prequire("bench_support") or require("../../bench_support") function test() local N = tonumber((arg and arg[1]) or 8) -- board size -- check whether position (n,c) is free from attacks local function isplaceok (a, n, c) for i = 1, n - 1 do -- for each queen already placed if (a[i] == c) or -- same column? (a[i] - i == c - n) or -- same diagonal? (a[i] + i == c + n) then -- same diagonal? return false -- place can be attacked end end return true -- no attacks; place is OK end -- print a board local function printsolution (a) for i = 1, N do for j = 1, N do --print(a[i] == j and "X" or "-", " ") end --print("\n") end --print("\n") end -- add to board 'a' all queens from 'n' to 'N' local function addqueen (a, n) if n > N then -- all queens have been placed? printsolution(a) else -- try to place n-th queen for c = 1, N do if isplaceok(a, n, c) then a[n] = c -- place n-th queen at column 'c' addqueen(a, n + 1) end end end end -- run the program addqueen({}, 1) end bench.runCode(test, "queen")