goal:your goal is to checkmate or explode the king.

your starting position looks like this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

piece mouvement:standard

special:when the piece takes a piece it explodes all the pieces around him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

black exploded alot of pawns!but it was a mistake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

the king got blowed up!game over!

coming soon: suicide chess

Are we aloud to place small packages of explosives directly on the other players king if we are playing OTB chess?

Is that what Topalov was doing in the bathroom?

Atomic chess doesn't explode every tangent pawn.  All tangent pieces EXCEPT pawns will explode (unless a pawn is directly taken in the exchange.)