semiqueens

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A form of semiqueen — A queen (chess piece) that can only move or attack in one (but not the opposing) direction

Scrabble 21

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of semiqueen

    This problem is equivalent to counting the number of orthomorphisms or complete mappings of #92;Zeta#47;n}, to counting the number of arrangements of n mutually nonattacking semiqueens on an n#92;timesn toroidal chessboard, and to counting the number of transversals in a cyclic Latin square.

    2015, Sean Eberhard, Freddie Manners, Rudi Mrazović, “Additive triples of bijections, or the toroidal semiqueens problem”, in arXiv
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