Chronatog

A Life in Games

  • The 2024 Atomic World Championship

    Congratulations to Natso**** who defeated NeverOfZero in the second final to become the 2024 Atomic World Champion! He has acquired a fifth asterisk in the process and is now Natso*****. The final and clinching game was https://lichess.org/415kwKsi/black The 2024 Lichess Atomic World Championship began on 11 September 2024. The players that made it through registration…

  • The 2024 Atomic Chess World Championship Rules

    The rules for the 2024 Atomic Chess World Championship on Lichess (Registration in August, games begin September).

  • 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…

  • Atomic on ICC

    ICC was the first major server to implement a version of atomic chess.  However, their version of atomic chess differs from standard atomic rules.  In ICC’s version of atomic chess, there are no checks.  That might not seem like much, but it completely changes certain atomic chess endgames and openings.  For example, K+R v K…

  • Atomic on USCL

    USCL was responsible for a major explosion in the atomic chess population and from the second half of 2000 until about the summer of 2003, it was my primary chess server.  I spent a lot of time online there, so I was able to save a lot of things from my time there.  Of special…