
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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Consider a standard ( $8$ -by- $8$ ) chessboard. Bishops are only allowed to attack pieces that are along the same diagonal as them (but cannot attack along a row or column). If a piece can attack another piece, we say that the pieces threaten each other. How many bishops can you place a chessboard without any of them threatening each other?

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