Chronatog

A Life in Games

  • 2025 Atomic World Championship Announcement

    Rule changes, and introducing myself as the new Tournament Director Following the retirement of Chronatog as the AWC Tournament Director, I am glad to announce that I will be in charge of organizing the AWC from now on. I would like to thank Chronatog for all the time and effort he invested in organizing the…

  • The 2020 Atomic World Championship Rules

    The 2020 Lichess Atomic Chess World Championship 1. Scope 1.1. The Lichess Atomic Chess World Championship for 2020 is to open the registration period on 1 August 2020. The registration period will end at 00:00 UTC on 1 September 2020. The first round of matches will commence at 00:00 UTC on 7 September 2020 and…

  • Rules Template for Running Online World Championships

    After the 2019 Atomic World Championships concluded – I wanted to write up a standard, easily editable template for rules in general. This is the end result of all of that time and work. The 2020 Atomic World Championship is coming up again soon as well. The specific rules for this year’s edition will be…

  • An Atomic Bildungsroman

    I first began my atomic chess pages way back on 21 July 2002 and they were hosted at one of my old websites, wild5.org.  I had actually begun some study of atomic chess prior to that time, but after starting my website, I studied atomic chess a lot more.  The site has transformed itself over…

  • Atomic Chess Pawnless Endgame Mate Studies

    [First Edition : 25 July 2002][Second Edition : 15 March 2005][Second Edition Enhancement: 08 October 2008] An interactive LiChess study of the important critical positions is here. The purpose of atomic mate studies is to discover the smallest amount / combinations of material with which you can mate in atomic. There are several unique positions…

  • Letters from Readers

    I love getting email from readers. Here’s a few of them from over the years. Most of it is about atomic chess, but sometimes it’s about the other sections of the website. Gannet (29-September-2016) Hello,I have read through your atomic chess page several times, and wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it and loved the content….

  • Annotated Atomic Games

    Annotation is not a skill that I naturally have – in fact, I tend to avoid annotating or even examining games for the most part. But if you want to improve, you’ll eventually have to look at some games and understand what went on within them and why the moves were made. As a sample…