This reminds me of a boardgame, played with 8 queens on a chess board, that was part of the National Mathematical Games Championship when I was in high school (in Portugal). It's called Game of the Amazons [1], and each player owns 4 queens. They take turns moving one of their queens to a valid position and then placing a stone within "sight" of this queen. Stones block cells and the first player to not be able to move any of his queens loses. Quite dynamic, and fun to devise successful strategies.
Cool paper by the way!