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Comment by HarHarVeryFunny

3 hours ago

What's the logic for putting the initial queen in a corner rather than using the same heuristic as for the remaining places?

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gw32  37 minutes ago

I was wondering that too. One would think that with a greedy approach, 1 square diagonally from the corner would be better. (But that doesn't work as well.)

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