A colleague has a parallel algorithm problem. There is a similar, more familiar problem that also uses backtracking, so let's discuss that. The problem is called n-queens. You have an nxn chessboard and the goal is to place n queens on them so that no queen attacks another: no two queens are on the same row, the same column, or the same diagonal.
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