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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).

  • The 2022 Atomic World CHAMPIONSHIP

    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…

  • The 2022 Atomic WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RULES

    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…

  • The 2021 Atomar World Championship

    The 2021 Atomar World Championship was a special event to announce the creation of a new chess variant in which the participants would be playing a brand new variant sight unseen.

  • THE 2021 ATOMIC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RULES

    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…

  • The 2020 Atomic World Championship

    The 2020 AWC is currently in progress. Check this post or the Challonge link for the current pairings.

  • The 2020 Atomic World Championship Rules

    The 2020 Lichess Atomic Chess World Championship 1. Scope 1.1. The Lichess Atomic Chess World Championship for 2020 is to open the registration period on 1 August 2020. The registration period will end at 00:00 UTC on 1 September 2020. The first round of matches will commence at 00:00 UTC on 7 September 2020 and…

  • Rules Template for Running Online World Championships

    After the 2019 Atomic World Championships concluded – I wanted to write up a standard, easily editable template for rules in general. This is the end result of all of that time and work. The 2020 Atomic World Championship is coming up again soon as well. The specific rules for this year’s edition will be…

  • 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…

  • 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…