Another little chess puzzle

Here’s another little chess puzzle by Martin Gardner, taken from the same paper as earlier.

The task is to place two rooks, two bishops, and two knights on a 4 by 4 chessboard so that no piece attacks any other.

As before, there are two basic solutions, plus symmetries.

See this post for solutions, and a Prolog program that finds and enumerates the solutions.

One thought on “Another little chess puzzle

  1. The bishops are on the same coloured squares in both solutions though. Whilst that could come about it still feels like a bit of a cheat.

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