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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…
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The 2025 Atomic World Championship Rules
The 2025 Lichess Atomic Chess World Championship The 2025 Atomic Chess World Championship (AWC 2025) will be open for registration from 15 July 2025 at 00:00 UTC to 15 August 2025 at 00:00 UTC via: https://awc.chessvariants.training (or another method to be determined) The games will be played at https://lichess.org. Matches will start at 00:00 UTC…
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A Statement on my Final Atomic World Championship as Tournament Director
Throughout the four different decades (1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s) that I’ve run an Atomic World Championship in, there has been a variety of incidents many well known and some lesser known. There’s been a running joke about how the rules have grown longer and longer over the years, but most of the rules are…
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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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The 2023 Atomic World Championship
The 2023 Atomic World Championship began on 11 September 2023 and completed on 10 December 2023 when vlad_00 became the 2023 Atomic Chess World Champion by defeating sutcunuri 5.5 – 4.5 in the final match.