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Chess Puzzle

Chess Puzzle
Adam Chalcraft

How many of the 32 chess pieces in a normal set can be placed on a chess board so that no piece attacks or defends any other?

(The position they are placed in need not be legally reachable - but remember the direction of play when placing pawns!)

Reproduced from Eureka 49 page 48.
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