Simple Amazons Endgames and Their Connection to Hamilton Circuits in Cubic Subgrid Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Michael Buro

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • CG '00 Revised Papers from the Second International Conference on Computers and Games
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Amazons is a young board game with simple rules and a high branching factor, which makes it a suitable test-bed for planning research. This paper considers the computational complexity of Amazons puzzles and restricted Amazons endgames. We first prove the NP-completeness of the Hamilton circuit problem for cubic subgraphs of the integer grid. This result is then used to showthat solving Amazons puzzles is an NP-complete task and determining the winner of simple Amazons endgames is NP-equivalent.