How many ways are there to place 8 queens on a standard chessboard such that no two queens lie on a common row, column or diagonal ?
Bonus : can you generalize this for queens on a chessboard?
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i have found the answer using computer program. this is a famous problem called the 8 queens problem. If you are trying manually , it will take a lot of time for a single solution itself.