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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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Golden Era of Atomic Chess (1995-1999)
I consider atomic chess history to be divided into distinct eras, with their own related stories. The first such era would obviously be the golden age of atomic chess, going by the traditional methodology of naming eras within history. I date this period from between late 1995 throughout the end of 1999 with a little…
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Atomic Openings 1995-1996
The Wild Wild West era of atomic chess opening theory stretched from roughly 27 November 1995 to 7 November 1996. I’ve collected as many games and other tidbits related to internet chess history, especially for chess variants as I could. Despite my efforts, I only have 26 games from the entirety of this period of…
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Atomic Openings
Atomic openings have gone through several phases of development to reach this point in time, where there’s almost a standard codex of atomic openings – but atomic chess is still somewhat far from being solved. At some point in the future, it’s possible that an opening will be discovered to basically ruin atomic chess. The…
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An Introduction to Atomic Chess
Atomic Chess has been played on various Internet Chess Servers (ICSes) since at least November 27, 1995 when Klaus Knopper collected the rules describing the game and the rules were introduced to the German Internet Chess Server (GICS) by connex. In the years that have passed since it was first introduced online, Atomic Chess has…