A cool kinda atomic opening

A cool kinda atomic opening

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If youre trying to get better at atomic this might help. I just played a few casual games (my challenges were accepted by low-rated players, I didn't choose to play them) and this opening worked literally every time. Here's the game: https://www.chess.com/variants/atomic/game/19645041 

If your opponent isnt rated lower than 1600 or has not played more than a few hundred games then youre pretty much unstoppable if you use this opening. White atomic players usually play 1. Nc3 to force you to play defense and threaten 2. Ne5 which pretty much forces mate or a queen sacrifice. If you play 2. c6 you can block this and it forces your opponent to use pawns to attack instead or play 2. Ne4. After this play Na6 to block 3. Nc5 so your opponent plays 3. Ng5 instead. If you play f6 here you can prevent your king from getting destroyed, and your opponent will respond with 4. Nf7, forking your queen and rook. Now that youre not in danger of checkmate you can play Qa5 to threaten checkmate/capture. When your opponent blocks it with b4 play Qb5. Then if you go to Qf5 the only way for your opponent to prevent checkmate is f4 or f5. Then when you play Qh5 the only ways to prevent checkmate are checkmate/capture is to use the knight or g pawn. If they use the knight then you can keep pressuring your opponent but if they play g4 then play Qh4+# which is checkmate.

Yeah thats complicated you probably wont read all of that. Hopefully this helps.