Amazons
Amazons Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Game Setup
Each player's four amazons start on the board in the standard configuration: Black's amazons on the two squares in from each side of the top row, White's amazons on the two squares in from each side of the bottom row.
How to Play
White moves first. Players alternate moves thereafter.
Each move consists of two parts:
- Moving one of one's own amazons one or more empty squares in a straight line (orthogonally or diagonally), exactly as a queen moves in chess; it may not cross or enter a square occupied by an amazon of either colour or an arrow.
- After moving, the amazon shoots an arrow from its landing square to another square, using another queenlike move. This arrow may travel in any orthogonal or diagonal direction (even backwards along the same path the amazon just travelled, into or across the starting square if desired). An arrow, like an amazon, cannot cross or enter a square where another arrow has landed or an amazon of either colour stands. The square where the arrow lands is marked with a red counter and it can no longer be used.
The last player to be able to make a move wins. Draws are impossible.