Two types of pieces, bishops and rooks, are to be placed on a $10\times 10$ chessboard (without necessarily filling it) such that each piece occupies exactly one square of the board. A bishop $B$ is said to attack a piece $P$ if $B$ and $P$ are on the same diagonal and there are no pieces between $B$ and $P$ on that diagonal; a rook $R$ is said to attack a piece $P$ if $R$ and $P$ are on the same row or column and there are no pieces between $R$ and $P$ on that row or column. A piece $P$ is chocolate if no other piece $Q$ attacks $P$. What is the maximum number of chocolate pieces there may be, after placing some pieces on the chessboard? Proposed by José Alejandro Reyes González
Problem
Source: 2021 Mexico Center Zone Regional Olympiad, problem 4
Tags: Mexico, combinatorics, Chessboard, board, Chess rook, Bishop