# The Non-Attacking Queens Game

by Hassan Noon (Bennington College) and Glen Van Brummelen (Bennington College)

This article originally appeared in:
College Mathematics Journal
May, 2006

Subject classification(s): Discrete Mathematics | Game Theory | Mathematics History
Applicable Course(s): 2.7 Finite Math | 4.8 History of Math | 5.2 Introduction to Linear Programming

Gauss found a solution to the problem of placing $n$ queens on an $n \times n$ chessboard so that no queen is attacked by another.

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