Author: Tony Werten
Date: 01:09:04 11/05/01
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On November 05, 2001 at 03:13:48, Christophe Theron wrote: >On November 05, 2001 at 01:38:19, Dan Andersson wrote: > >>Amazons is played on a 10x10 board. Each player has 4 Amazons. They move like >>Queens and after moving the Amazon shoots one arrow on any square that the >>amazon might move to if it was to move again. The players alternate turns. You >>must make a move on your turn. The objective is to stalemate your opponent. It >>is interesting in the sense that a non selective search is impossible. And the >>move generation is very simple. The branching factor is in the thousands and >>make Go look silly. The game soon degenerates in subgames when the board is >>dividet in to separate areas. Those subgames may be exactly solvable, and don't >>really interact. >> >>MvH Dan Andersson > > > >Thanks for the info. That sounds quite far away from chess. > >Are there captures in this game? Do the arrows actually stay where they fall for >while, preventing moves? Or do they "capture"? No captures. The field where the arrow landed is blocked for all queens and all arrows for the rest of the game. The point of the game is to lock up your opponents queens. Tony > > > > Christophe
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