Wikipedia references: N-queens & No-3-in-line
The 4-queens board is few enough pieces that it never has three queens on the same line
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But even by the 5-queens boards, the "put them a knight move apart" general pattern for solutions starts showing up, as both (modulo symmetry) solutions have 3-in-a-line:
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And the only 6-queens board has two lines already:
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There's one 7-queens solution with only a single line
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but most have more.
Is it possible that a large board can have arrangement that solves both the $n$-queens problem and the no-three-in-line problem? Or does the knight-move structure of $n$-queens solutions always end up making lines of three-or-more pieces?