this is a demonstration of the backtracking method of solving the n-queens problem, written in scheme (a dialect of lisp)

it demonstrates how the algorithm plays out. find more about backtracking, n-queens and scheme at wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtracking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-queens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_%28programming_language%29

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