From: David Bush <chmeee <at> HOTMAIL <dot> COM>
Date: 30 sep 1999
Subject: Re: Second Open Computer Amazon Championship. 13-14 December,

>Dear Colleague,
>
>This is an invitation to the Second Open Computer Amazon Championship
>...
>0. What is AMAZON?
>To see/learn the rules, you may see a report article by Sasaki and Iida,
>titled: Report on the First Open Computer-Amazon Championship, in
>ICCA Journal, vol.22, no.1, pp.41-44, 1999.
>(URL: http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~icca/journal.htm)

That website does not contain the rules to this game. It mentions
ICCA vol. 21 no. 4 but no further.

Is this the same as "The Game of the Amazons" which is described
at http://www.gamerz.net/~pbmserv   ? 10x10 grid, 4 queens each,
no captures, each move consists of moving one amazon and "shooting"
an unoccupied square, rendering it out of play? Last to move wins?

I apologize for pursuing a non-shogi thread, but I hope to save
time for anyone whose curiosity is piqued.

Anyway, it can be played on the intersections of a shogi board...

David Bush

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