Hillel Wayne wrote about solving the LinkedIn Queens
problem
with SMT in his Computer Things
newsletter. This was in turn inspired by Ryan Berger's post Using SAT
to Get the World Record on LinkedIn's
Queens that solves the same
problem using a SAT solver.
Not to be outdone, this post describes how to use MiniZinc to solve
the problem in what I think is a more readable and natural
expression of the model than either SAT or SMT. As always, YMMV and
what is natural and clear to one person is opaque and weird to someone else.