C Program to solve N Queen’s problem

N Queen’s problem is the puzzle. Placing chess queens on a chessboard, so thatNo two queens attack each other. Here we use the Brute-Force method to solve the problem.

C Program

#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<math.h>
int a[30],count=0;
int place(int pos) {
	int i;
	for (i=1;i<pos;i++) {
		if((a[i]==a[pos])||((abs(a[i]-a[pos])==abs(i-pos))))
		   return 0;
	}
	return 1;
}
void print_sol(int n) {
	int i,j;
	count++;
	printf("\n\nSolution #%d:\n",count);
	for (i=1;i<=n;i++) {
		for (j=1;j<=n;j++) {
			if(a[i]==j)
			    printf("Q\t"); else
			    printf("*\t");
		}
		printf("\n");
	}
}
void queen(int n) {
	int k=1;
	a[k]=0;
	while(k!=0) {
		a[k]=a[k]+1;
		while((a[k]<=n)&&!place(k))
		   a[k]++;
		if(a[k]<=n) {
			if(k==n)
			    print_sol(n); else {
				k++;
				a[k]=0;
			}
		} else
		   k--;
	}
}
void main() {
	int i,n;
	clrscr();
	printf("Enter the number of Queens\n");
	scanf("%d",&n);
	queen(n);
	printf("\nTotal solutions=%d",count);
	getch();
}