Arrange one king, five knights and two queens to attack all vacant squares

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Consider a conventional 8×8 chessboard.

Arrange one King, five Knights and two Queens on it in such a manner that every vacant square is under attack.
 

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K Sengupta said:
Consider a conventional 8×8 chessboard.

Arrange one King, five Knights and two Queens on it in such a manner that every vacant square is under attack.

One of the several solutions...

King: b7
Queens: a1, h8
Knights: d4,d5,e4,e5,g2

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