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 2016 Atomic World Championships

    11 years after the 2005 Atomic World Championships were run, another ‘official’ World Championship was organized by tipau. These Championships were run on lichess.org and with his kind permission, I’ve copied and mirrored his site for those championships that he’s run. There were 41 entrants to the 2016 Championships: Seed Name Rating Best Average 1…

  • Simple Atomic Puzzles

    These puzzles were composed by Nick Long (Chronatog) over a period of years. Most of them are relatively simple and intended to provide some general concepts to understand how to play atomic chess better. No. 000, 2001 White to explode in 2 Q2/8/k7/K1p5/2P5/8/8/8 No. 001, 2002 Game Drawn 1/2 – 1/2 8/8/8/4k2P/8/8/8/K7 No. 002, 2002…

  • The 2005 Atomic World Championships

    The 2005 Atomic World Championships were held on FICS from October 1st, 2005 to December 1st, 2005.  It was run as an open knockout match-format tournament – all of the games and rules have been preserved below – I ran this tournament and sometime, I’ll add some funny anecdotes about this tournament.  But this was…

  • FIDA Ratings (1 Dec 2005)

    1st FIDA Ratings 1.Dec.2005 ID Name AGM Norms Avg Rating Tot 5 12 Rat Gam 3 0 Rat Gam 1 0 Rat Gam ========================================================================================== 0001 tipau(AGM) 0 2316 40 2220 8 2432 16 2297 16 0002 siggemannen(AWC)0 2432 30 2374 6 2432 12 2489 12 0003 TCK 1 2294 20 2316 4 2287 8 2278…

  • Atomic on FICS

    This section was first written on 21 June 2006 and I’m simply reposting the original text of that article here until I expand it at a later date. When Atomic was added onto FICS around Feburary 2003 after a long wait, I decided to make a duplicate account in order to play atomic on FICS…

  • Bronze Era of Atomic Chess (2004-2009)

    I consider atomic chess history to be divided into distinct eras, with their own related stories.  The second such era would obviously be the silver age of atomic chess, going by the traditional methodology of naming eras within history.  I date this period from between early 2004 throughout the start of 2009.  This period of…