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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.

Second Open Computer Amazon Championship - Rules and results from the event on December 13-14, 1999.

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.

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.