Can you place fourteen chess bishops on an 8×8 chessboard so that no two bishops threaten each other?  





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Using the combinations formula, 64C14, there are 47,855,699,958,800 (yes, that is over 47 trillion) possible arrangements of fourteen bishops on an 8×8 board.   Here is a solution: