Originally founded in 1965 under another name, this institute is also a national research and communication service agency. The space itself includes 40 working studios, a huge showroom, a large sculpture studio and a teaching building. The...besides the Amazon (which is typically called a Giraffe in Turkish Great Chess) two other fairy chess pieces: a bishop+knight piece (Vizir) and a rook+knight piece (War Machine). (Those sorts of pieces appear under yet different names in the Capablanca Chess and Seirawan Chess variants as well.)

A second variant that is mentioned in the Amazon Wikipedia entry is The Maharaja and the Sepoys, which provides a severe test for the might of the Amazon: namely, it pits a lone Amazon (Maharaja) against a standard chess army on an 8x8 board. An Amazon is capable of checkmating a king by itself, and that is its objective, while the standard army is tasked with checkmating the very mobile Amazon. 

