Old Man of Coniston stretch from north of the summit toward the Coppermines. The Old Man of Coniston is the inspiration for the so-called "Kanchenjunga", the Lake District mountain Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons climb in the Swallows and Amazons novel "Swallowdale". The slate quarries and copper mines inspired "Pigeon Post", a later novel in the same series. Old Man of Coniston The Old Man of Coniston is a fell in the Furness Fells in the English Lake District. It is high, and lies to the west of the village of Coniston and the lake, Coniston Water. The fell is sometimes known by the
Game of the Amazons in 1994, and an updated version with graphics in Visual Basic in 1995. There are Amazons tournaments at the Computer Olympiad, a series of computer-versus-computer competitions. Usually, in the endgame, the board is partitioned into separate "royal chambers", with queens inside each chamber. We define simple Amazons endgames to be endgames where each chamber has at most one queen. Determining who wins in a simple Amazons endgame is NP-hard. This is proved by reducing it to finding the Hamiltonian path of a cubic subgraph of the square grid graph. Generalized Amazons (that is, determining the winner of a game of