Picture a chessboard populated with a number of queens (i.e. pieces that can move like a queen in chess). The board is a matrix, a, filled mostly with zeros, while the queens are given as ones. Your job is to verify that the board is a legitimate answer to the N-Queens problem. The board is good only when no queen can "see" (and thus capture) another queen.
Example
The matrix below shows two queens on a 3-by-3 chessboard. The queens can't see each other, so the function should return TRUE.
1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Here is a bigger board with more queens. Since the queens on rows 3 and 4 are adjacent along a diagonal, they can see each other and the function should return FALSE.
0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
The board doesn't have to be square, but it always has 2 or more rows and 2 or more columns. This matrix returns FALSE.
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
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yurenchu
on 12 Mar 2017
Cheating solution.
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Jan Orwat
on 26 Sep 2013
This solution has a minor bug, but it fortunately passed the test suite. :-)
2 Comments
yurenchu
on 12 Mar 2017
It's supposed to be a n-QUEENS checker, not an n-KINGS checker. This solution wouldn't work with a = [1 0 1; 0 0 0; 0 1 0], for example.
Ned Gulley
on 15 Mar 2017
Thanks yurenchu! I added your proposed test point to the tests.
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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon
on 27 Jan 2012
test suite needs additional samples that fail due to diagonal movements (e.g. [1,0;0,1])
Ned Gulley
on 30 Jan 2012
I added this test. Rescoring now. Thanks for the suggestion.
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