// Copyright 2010-2025 Google LLC // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. // You may obtain a copy of the License at // // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and // limitations under the License. // [START program] // OR-Tools solution to the N-queens problem. package com.google.ortools.constraintsolver.samples; // [START import] import com.google.ortools.Loader; import com.google.ortools.constraintsolver.DecisionBuilder; import com.google.ortools.constraintsolver.IntVar; import com.google.ortools.constraintsolver.Solver; // [END import] /** N-Queens Problem. */ public final class NQueensCp { public static void main(String[] args) { Loader.loadNativeLibraries(); // Instantiate the solver. // [START solver] Solver solver = new Solver("N-Queens"); // [END solver] // [START variables] int boardSize = 8; IntVar[] queens = new IntVar[boardSize]; for (int i = 0; i < boardSize; ++i) { queens[i] = solver.makeIntVar(0, boardSize - 1, "x" + i); } // [END variables] // Define constraints. // [START constraints] // All rows must be different. solver.addConstraint(solver.makeAllDifferent(queens)); // All columns must be different because the indices of queens are all different. // No two queens can be on the same diagonal. IntVar[] diag1 = new IntVar[boardSize]; IntVar[] diag2 = new IntVar[boardSize]; for (int i = 0; i < boardSize; ++i) { diag1[i] = solver.makeSum(queens[i], i).var(); diag2[i] = solver.makeSum(queens[i], -i).var(); } solver.addConstraint(solver.makeAllDifferent(diag1)); solver.addConstraint(solver.makeAllDifferent(diag2)); // [END constraints] // [START db] // Create the decision builder to search for solutions. final DecisionBuilder db = solver.makePhase(queens, Solver.CHOOSE_FIRST_UNBOUND, Solver.ASSIGN_MIN_VALUE); // [END db] // [START solve] int solutionCount = 0; solver.newSearch(db); while (solver.nextSolution()) { System.out.println("Solution " + solutionCount); for (int i = 0; i < boardSize; ++i) { for (int j = 0; j < boardSize; ++j) { if (queens[j].value() == i) { System.out.print("Q"); } else { System.out.print("_"); } if (j != boardSize - 1) { System.out.print(" "); } } System.out.println(); } solutionCount++; } solver.endSearch(); // [END solve] // Statistics. // [START statistics] System.out.println("Statistics"); System.out.println(" failures: " + solver.failures()); System.out.println(" branches: " + solver.branches()); System.out.println(" wall time: " + solver.wallTime() + "ms"); System.out.println(" Solutions found: " + solutionCount); // [END statistics] } private NQueensCp() {} } // [END program]