Independence and Domination Separation on Chessboard Graphs

A legal placement of Queens is any placement of Queens on an order N chessboard in which any two attacking Queens can be separated by a Pawn. The Queens independence separation number is the minimum number of Pawns which can be placed on an N × N board to result in a separated board on which a maximum of m independent Queens can be placed. We prove that N + k Queens can be separated by k Pawns for large enough N and provide some results on the number of fundamental solutions to this problem. We also introduce separation relative to other domination-related parameters for Queens, Rooks, and Bishops.