
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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Determine the maximum number of bishops that we can place in a  $8 \times 8$  chessboard such that there are not two bishops in the same cell, and each bishop is threatened by at most one bishop. 

Note: A bishop threatens another one, if both are placed in different cells, in the same diagonal. A board has as diagonals the  $2$  main diagonals and the ones parallel to those ones.

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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