[salomon812]

I know this puzzle as "Star Battle" where I play it here: https://www.puzzle-star-battle.com where my favorite difficulty for a nice medium difficulty is "Normal 10x10 2 stars"

The LinkedIn Queens seems to be a much easier version of this puzzle.

You can see the Cracking the Cryptic folks (of Miracle Sudoku fame) take on the puzzle here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KGraaDXP_0

[mathgeek]

> The LinkedIn Queens seems to be a much easier version of this puzzle.

This is exactly it. Queens is an “under two minutes” version.