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| An example White moves 1. g1-b6,c7. The arrow landed on c7, so neither player can cross that intersection. |
There is a ZRF to play Amazons with Zillions.
There is also a variant Killer Amazons
where it's possible to capture any Amazon of either color.
A 1990 uncredited video game is Joust, is played in a 8x8 board with two Chess knights. One player places his knight in his first row, and the second player places hers on her first row. However, the second knight cannot be directly opposite neither of the mirror column (e.g., if the first knight is of c1, the second canot be on c8 or f8). Then, on each move, a knight jumps to empty squares and leaves a wall behind. So, knights can jump over walls. A stalemated player loses the game.
Another
variant from Chris Huntoon, in 2003, Cowboys
also
uses Knights on a 8x8 chess board (with no capture):
A similar game is Emil Danielsen's Zappazon (2026) played on a 9x9 board, where players initially place two pieces each. The pieces move by making two Knight steps in sequence, then shoots the arrow (using the traditional Queen range) to place a new wall.
In r.g.a there was a proposal for a Pencil & Paper variant:
It's the same as regular Amazons, except that the square from which your Amazon moved automatically becomes an arrow square after the Amazon moves away from it, but before it shoots its new arrow. This means that you can play it with X's and O's for the Amazons, and color in the arrow squares, or use a superimposed X and O together for all arrow squares. The game is faster, since each move uses up two empty squares instead of one, and tactics are different, since it becomes much harder to get back into a region once you move out of it. There's even a little more subtlety to figuring out how many endgame moves a given territory will produce.
Bill Taylor and João Pedro Neto proposed, in 2004, a much more dynamic variant: 134* Amazons, where within a turn, all moves must be from different pieces, and the player loses the match if he cannot make all his moves.
Here's a game by the authors:
AMAZONS 134* (João starts)
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. . . o . . . x . . . o . . . 2
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
. x . . . . . . . . . . . x . 4
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
. o . . . . . . . . . . . o . 8
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
. x . . . . . . . . . . . x . 12
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
. . . o . . . x . . . o . . . 14
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1. n4-d4/e3
2. d2-f2/d2 l14-l10/n10 d14-f12/m12
3. h2-h5/d1 d4-g4/e2 h14-h12/a5 n12-m11/m10
4. f2-g3/f3 l2-k3/h3 n8-m7/k5 l10-i10/i4
5. h12-g13/i11 h5-h7/h12 m11-j11/j10 b12-c13/f13
6. m7-k7/k11 i10-k8/k10 k3-i5/i6 g3-h4/g3
7. g4-g11/e11 g13-g12/f11 j11-l13/g13 c13-e13/e12
8. k7-i9/i7 k8-e8/h11 i5-l8/l12 h4-i5/h4
9. l13-o13/l10 b4-b5/h5 h7-g7/e5 e13-b13/e13
10 l8-i8/g10 e8-e7/h10 b8-c7/f10 i5-o10/i5
11 g7-g8/i10 o13-o11/n11 b13-b8/c9 b5-c5/b6
12 i8-c2/c4 i9-i8/g6 e7-e9/i9 c7-d8/c8
13 c5-a3/d3 g8-e6/d6 b8-b10/d10 o11-l14/o11
14 d7-f7/f5 e9-e8/e7 i8-g8/b13 c2-b3/b2
15 a3-b4/a3 e6-f6/e6 b10-b11/d9 l14-d14/d11
16 e8-d8/e8 g8-h7/e10 f7-g7/f7 b3-b5/b3
17 a4-b4/a4 b11-b7/d5 f6-g5/f6 d14-a11/a6
18 b5-c5/b5 h7-h6/h9 d8-c7/a9 g7-f8/o8
19 g5-f4/d4 b7-b8/b7 g12-h13/k11 g11-g12/g11
20 h6-g5/g4 c7-e9/g9 f8-n8/o9 c5-c7/c5
21 resigns 0-1
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. . . # . . . . . . . . . . . 1
. # . # # . . . . . . . . . . 2
. # . # # # # # . . . . . . . 3
# x # # . x # # # . . . . . . 4
# # # # # # o # # . # . . . . 5
# # . # # # # . # . . . . . . 6
. # o # # # . . # . . . . . . 7
. x # . # . . . . . . . . o # 8
# . # # o . # # # . . . . . # 9
. . . # # # # # # # # # # # o 10
x . . # # # # # # # # . . # # 11
. . . . # o x # . . . # # . . 12
. # . . # # # x . . . . . . . 13
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Another variant from Taylor and Neto, and a mix with Cul-de-Sac, is 2007's Tromazons:
- On a 8x8, each one starts with four stones.
- A move consists of moving one piece along to a rookwise adjacent empty cell, then placing a wall adjacent to it.
- A player unable to complete a move loses.
a b c d e f g h
+-------------------------------+
8 | J B |
| + + + + + + + |
7 | |
| + + + + + + + |
6 | B J |
| + + + + + + + |
5 | |
| + + + + + + + |
4 | |
| + + + + + + + |
3 | J B |
| + + + + + + + |
2 | |
| + + + + + + + |
1 | B J |
+-------------------------------+
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Joao Bill
1 --- c7W b6E f7E
2 d7E g6N f6E h4N
3 g5E b3S g4N f5E
4 c3S d6E f6S b5E
5 f2S d5S e6S f4N
6 f3N c4N b4E e7S
7 d6W e3W e8S d1E
8 e4E d7N d8W g4W
9 c3N e3E b3E g3N
10 e2S c7E d2E b4S
11 d3W c8S e8W b5S
12 b8E g6S f8W b6S
13 b7N h6S g8S g2W
14 a7N h7W a6N h8S
15 resigns
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+-------------------------------+
8 | | | | | B |
|---+---+---+---+---+ +---+---|
7 | J | | | | | J |
|---+ + + +---+ +---+ |
6 | B | | | | |
| +---+ + +---+---+---+---|
5 | | | | |
| +---+---+---+ +---+---+---|
4 | | | | |
| +---+---+ + +---+---+ |
3 | | | J | | |
| +---+---+ + + + + |
2 | B | J | B |
| + + + +---+---+ + |
1 | | |
+-------------------------------+
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