# Generalization of Eight Queen Puzzle [closed]

Here's one generalized version of the famous Eight Queen's Puzzle:

Given an n × n chess board, and an integer m (≤ n). Find all possible ways to put nm Queens such that

• there are m Queens at each row
• there are m Queens at each column

(note that we do not impose any restriction on the diagonals).

As you might see, it is possible, e.g. [1 denotes a Queen]:

### n = 3, m = 2

1   1   0
0   1   1
1   0   1


### n = 15, m = 2

0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0
0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0
0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0
1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0
1   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0
0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1
0   0   0   1   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
0   1   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   1   0   0   0   0   0   0
0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0
0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1
0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0
0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   1   0   0
0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   1   0   0


Input: n, m

Output: Number of solutions

Winning Criteria: Single thread, Fastest [I will test with n = 15, m = 8 in my computer]

Optional: Print all solutions (as in the format given in examples)

Preferred Language: Python 2.7, Julia

Good luck!

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• Back of the envelope suggests about 10^50 solutions for n = 15, m = 8. – xnor Feb 13 '17 at 17:36
• This is the third time today I've run into this problem. The world is a funny place. – beaker Feb 13 '17 at 23:21
• @xnor, it's 649920606971625785993833472182540933121831448000. Pretty good estimate. – Peter Taylor Feb 14 '17 at 8:41
• I find it quite distracting to call this a generalisation of the eight queens problem. It would make slightly more sense to call it a generalisation of the eight rooks problem, but the literature (A008300 and see refs.) seems to describe the problem principally in terms of 0-1 matrices. It's clear that printing all solutions is a non-goer for all but some very small inputs, so I would remove that suggestion. – Peter Taylor Feb 14 '17 at 8:47