I have to make a program taht alows me to place 8 queens on a chest board with out having them kill on another with there repective movements.

i need to do this program by keeping trake of the movements with a multy bimentional array which i hav no idea how to do. also i have to make a program that runs through all the posible cobination of how the queen can be put on the board and some how show the qween position on an apolet.

but frist i would to know how i ould go about drawing a cheast board on and applet.

i have just started java and would really apercheat the help.

thanx