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The Amazons Board Game
Description of the game and comprehensive set of links to rules, programs, papers, and talks. Home of the Java applet Antiope.
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~tegos/amazons/
Second Open Computer Amazon Championship
Rules and results from the event on December 13-14, 1999.
http://www.cs.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp/%7ehasimoto/amazon/championship_e.html
Talk by Georg Snatzke: Amazons
Streaming-video 30-minute talk held at MSRI during the Combinatorial Game Theory Research Workshop, July 24-28, 2000. Humorous introduction to the game and its popularity, a description of a program for computing the game-theoretic values of game boards up to 2x11, and its results.
http://www.msri.org/publications/ln/msri/2000/gametheory/snatzke/1/index.html
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.
http://www.msri.org/publications/ln/msri/2000/gametheory/mueller/1/index.html
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.
http://www.dc.uba.ar/people/materias/pf/amazons/
Play-by-eMail Amazons
Play with 2 players from the standard starting position, or with 3-4 players with other starting positions.
http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/amazons.html
Chess Variants - Amazons
Detailed history of the game, description of rules, and an old (1995) copy of Michael Keller's Windows implementation.
http://www.chessvariants.com/other.dir/amazons.html
Amazong
Java applet for playing amazons, with a strong computer player, written by Jens Lieberum.
http://www.msri.org/people/members/lieberum/amazong/amazong.html
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