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Amazons
A kind of mix between chess and go, Amazons was invented in 1988 by Walter Zamkauskas. It is played on a 10x10 board with 4 white amazons and 4 black amazons starting along the boundary of the board. Amazons move like chess queens, moving only over unoccupied squares, and after a move shoot an arrow to a square accessible by a queen move. That square is now occupied, and cannot be moved over or shot over. The last player to move wins.
Sites in Amazons
Second Open Computer Amazon Championship
Rules and results from the event on December 13-14, 1999.
Talk by Martin Müller: Arrows: A Program that Plays Amazons
Streaming-video 30-minute talk held at MSRI during the Combinatorial Game Theory Research Workshop, July 24-28, 2000. Describes some of the issues involved in designing and theories behind building a reasonable Amazons computer player.
Amazon Unofficial Home Page
Small: includes a copy of the (1997) call for the first Amazon tournament for computer players, and several sample games played.
Play-by-eMail Amazons
Play with 2 players from the standard starting position, or with 3-4 players with other starting positions.
Chess Variants - Amazons
Detailed history of the game, description of rules, and an old (1995) copy of Michael Keller's Windows implementation.
Amazong
Java applet for playing amazons, with a strong computer player, written by Jens Lieberum. |
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