Category: Variants
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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…
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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…
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ICS Interview – Gnejs
THE ICS INTERVIEWS SERIES – No. 013 – GNEJSInterviewed August 2019First published September 2019 INTERVIEWER Thanks for doing this interview. You played bughouse and crazyhouse on FICS for many years in the 1990s. Then you took a break for a while. What made you come back to playing? GNEJS Well I suppose the question is…
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2019 Atomic World Championship Entrants (and Results)
Ratings subject to change as data comes in or is found. Rankings will all be ‘TBD’ until the list is finalized. For now, these are the order in which people have registered. Prelim Ranks Name Base Rating Performance Rating Seeding Rating 1* onubense 2450¹ (2427, 2828) 2540 2495 2* Xeransis 2300¹ (2404, 2623) 2476 2388…
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The 2019 Atomic World Championships
Format: Modified single-knockout with a cut at the top 8, with potential additions beyond this point, transforming to double-knockout. The 2018 Atomic World Championship was a double elimination knockout tournament that was run surprisingly well, but had a number of incidents that the rules have been changed/modified to address. First and foremost, the double knockout…
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The 2018 Atomic World Championships
For the third year in a row, tipau organized an Atomic World Championship on lichess, following the successful organization of the 2016 and 2017 editions. Challonge was once again used – as this was a double elimination knockout format. The bracket can be found at: http://challonge.com/atomicwc2018 This year, the entrants list topped out at 65…
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The 2017 Atomic World Championships
After the successful completion of the 2016 Atomic World Championship, tipau ran another edition in 2017. There were 44 entrants for this edition: Seed Name Rating Best Average 1 onubense 2813 2813 2813 2 Arka50 2641 2824 2733 3 tipau 2629 2805 2717 4 pashpash 2612 2745 2679 5 OneFallWeAllFall 2552 2642 2597 6 moustruito…
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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…
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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…
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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…