What in the world is Atomic Chess

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A lot of my friends are playing this variant of chess called Atomic Chess and I have absolutely NO IDEA what it is!!!??? Can someone help me?

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jackxu2006 wrote:

A lot of my friends are playing this variant of chess called Atomic Chess and I have absolutely NO IDEA what it is!!!??? Can someone help me?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_chess

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thx

 

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@jackxu2006 atomic is an awesome variant. If you are interested in studying atomic chess, there's also a discord server where you can easily get help https://discord.gg/RhWgzcC

 

EDIT: some idiotic person deleted most of the original post. Thousands of people (including Magnus Carlsen) play atomic chess on lichess.org

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is it where pieces blow up?

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Yes, you're probably thinking of atomic. There are a couple lesser known variants that have pieces blowing up such as Beruit Chess, but you're most likely not thinking of one of these variants.

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Great! I would like to try it!

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Btw, Kim Jong Un is the unofficial world champion.

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why isntt there any atomic on chess.com? Or am I missing something?

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The one unfortunate thing about Atomic Chess is that white always starts with an advantage. Black usually only wins if white blunders or makes too many mistakes.

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also the king can ignore check by another king as kings cant capture

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Weird.

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If you are checked you can counter nuke and explode()capture their king