History
El Juego de las Amazonas was first published in Spanish in the Argentine puzzle magazine El Acertijo (number 4, December 1992). An approved English translation was written by Michael Keller and an article first appeared in the chess magazine NOST-Algia. Other game publications also published the rules, and the game gathered a small but devoted following. The Internet spread the game more widely, and it is considered by many aficionados to be one of the best and deepest abstract games.
Michael Keller wrote the first computer program to play the Game of the Amazons in 1994 (in Fortran with a text interface; a later version was written in Visual Basic; see References). Quite a few stronger programs have been written in recent years by various authors. There is usually an Amazons tournament at the annual Computer Olympiad.
An authorized version of the game appears in the Transpose collection by Kadon Enterprises.
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