[Tutor] checking diagonals on a chessboard

first, A disclaimer: This isn't directly homework but is related to an assignment of mine   I'm building a genetic algorithm to solve the queen placement problem, the complicated stuff I can do on my own, but I'm not getting one part.  suppose the queen is on a square, I can check that it is in th

Re: [Tutor] checking diagonals on a chessboard

Thanks for the input from everyone,I had been working with a flat array and checking the horizontals and verticals with slices and mod math but I think the tuple approach would be pretty easy to change to use. I can't ever recall being interested in a test from a test suite but my interest is pique