51. N-Queens
The n-queens puzzle is the problem of placing n queens on an n×n chessboard such that no two queens attack each other.
Given an integer n, return all distinct solutions to the n-queens puzzle.
Each solution contains a distinct board configuration of the n-queens' placement, where 'Q'
and '.'
both indicate a queen and an empty space respectively.
For example,
There exist two distinct solutions to the 4-queens puzzle:
[ [".Q..", // Solution 1 "...Q", "Q...", "..Q."], ["..Q.", // Solution 2 "Q...", "...Q", ".Q.."] ]
public class Solution {
public List<List<String>> solveNQueens(int n){
List<List<String>> list= new LinkedList<List<String>>();
solveNQueens(0, 0, n, new int[n], list);
return list;
}
private void solveNQueens(int row, int col, int n, int[] column, List<List<String>> l){
if (row == n){
List<String> sub= new LinkedList<>();
for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) {
StringBuilder sb= new StringBuilder("");
for (int k = 0; k < column[j]; k++) { sb.append(".");}
sb.append("Q");
for (int k = column[j]+1; k < n; k++) { sb.append(".");}
sub.add(sb.toString());
}
l.add(sub);
}
else{
for (int i = col; i < n; i++) {
column[row]= i;
boolean f= true;
for (int r = row-1, lc= i-1, rc= i+1; r>=0 ; r--,lc--,rc++ ) {
if (column[r]== i || column[r]==lc || column[r]==rc) f= false;
}
if (f) solveNQueens(row+1, 0, n, column, l);
}
}
}
}