Tag: atomic chess
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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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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 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 2022 Atomic World CHAMPIONSHIP
The list of participants (and their ratings/calculations) are listed below. Week 1 matches (officially) begin on Monday, September 12, 2022. You may play ahead if your opponent is known. https://challonge.com/2022awc Seed Players Perf Rating Perf Link Best Rating Game Link Seeding Rating 1 vlad_00 2651 https://lichess.org/tournament/g2YveawB 2563 https://lichess.org/fMywdPxn 2607 2 fast-tsunami 2436 https://lichess.org/tournament/dpEktlDj 2516 https://lichess.org/w1Rf3fsi…
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The 2022 Atomic WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RULES
The 2022 Lichess Atomic Chess World Championship 1. Scope 1.1 The Lichess Atomic Chess World Championship for 2022 is to open the registration period on 1 August 2022. The registration period will end at 00:00 UTC on 1 September 2022. The first round of matches will commence at 00:00 UTC on 12 September 2022 and continue…
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THE 2021 ATOMIC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RULES
Special Announcement for 2021 Note: To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Atomic Chess, I’ve decided to run two separate tournaments to celebrate this chess variant and community. Many players today may have never experienced the early days of a brand new variant. The thrill of discovery. Everybody on a level playing field. No opening book…
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The 2020 Atomic World Championship
The 2020 AWC is currently in progress. Check this post or the Challonge link for the current pairings.
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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…