 You have unexpectedly become the owner of a large chessboard,
having fifteen squares to each side. Because you do not know
how to play chess on such a large board, you find an
alternative way to make use of it.
You have unexpectedly become the owner of a large chessboard,
having fifteen squares to each side. Because you do not know
how to play chess on such a large board, you find an
alternative way to make use of it.
In chess, a rook attacks all squares that are in the same row or column of the chessboard as it is. For the purposes of this problem, we define a rook as also attacking the square on which it is already standing.
Given a set of chessboard squares, how many rooks are needed to attack all of them?
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