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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 ... [MORE]
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Amazon Unofficial Home Page
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Small: includes a copy of the (1997) call for the first Amazon tournament for computer players, and several sample games played.
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Amazong
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Java applet for playing amazons, with a strong computer player, written by Jens Lieberum.
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Chess Variants - Amazons
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Detailed history of the game, description of rules, and an old (1995) copy of Michael Keller's Windows implementation.
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Play-by-eMail Amazons
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Play with 2 players from the standard starting position, or with 3-4 players with other starting positions.
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Talk by Martin Müller: Arrows: A Program that Plays Amazons
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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.
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