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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…
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The 2024 Atomic Chess World Championship Rules
The rules for the 2024 Atomic Chess World Championship on Lichess (Registration in August, games begin September).
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ICS Interview – RFrancisco
THE ICS INTERVIEWS SERIES – No. 005 – RFRANCISCO Interview conducted February 2011 First published March 2019 INTERVIEWER Thanks for agreeing to be interviewed as part of the ICS Interviews series. RFRANCISCO No problem. INTERVIEWER You’re probably best known as a bughouse (and crazyhouse) player on the various _ICS sites you’ve played on, although you’re also well known as a…
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ICS Interview – Rekursiv
THE ICS INTERVIEWS SERIES – No. 004 – REKURSIV Interview conducted February 2011 First published February 2019 INTERVIEWER Thanks for agreeing to be interviewed as part of the ICS Interviews series. REKURSIV It is my pleasure. INTERVIEWER You’ve been somewhat inactive in atomic chess and rarely if ever seen online for a couple of years now. Have you quit playing…
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ICS Interview – tipau
THE ICS INTERVIEWS SERIES – No. 003 – TIPAU Interview conducted February 2011 First published January 2013 INTERVIEWERThanks for agreeing to be interviewed as part of the ICS Interviews series. TIPAUNo problem. INTERVIEWERWhen did you first start playing chess online? TIPAUI think it was in 2000. I joined my first chess club in late…
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ICS Interview – Pendor
THE ICS INTERVIEWS SERIES – No. 002 – PENDOR Interview conducted February 2011 First published May 2011 INTERVIEWERThanks for agreeing to be interviewed as part of the ICS interview series. This will be your first interview, although Flesh did a profile of you back in 1998 and posted a few log files of yours…
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ICS Interview – FatalImage
THE ICS INTERVIEWS SERIES – No. 001 – FATALIMAGE Interview conducted January 2011 First published March 2011INTERVIEWERThanks for agreeing to be interviewed as part of the Wild 5 series.FATALIMAGENo problem, good to be a part of it.INTERVIEWERI personally remember how much I was able to learn about Wild 5 history and game theory, just from…
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The ICS Interview Project
Playing chess on the Internet has been around for a while by now and as with everything on the Internet, things are ephemeral. Most of the players in the early days of the ICS have started or already drifted away from online chess. These players usually began playing around 1996, and the ICS Interviews project…