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A capture in atomic chess. Nxg7 causes an "explosion" in which the capturing knight, captured pawn, and adjacent black rook and bishop are removed from play. Adjacent pawns are unaffected. Atomic chess is a chess variant.
Stratomic is a chess variant invented by Robert Montay-Marsais in 1972. [1] [2] [3] The game is played on a 10×10 board with all the standard chess pieces present, and in addition, two nuclea pieces (representing nuclear missiles) and two extra pawns per side. The game brings the concept of modern warfare weaponry to chess.
Original – A capture in atomic chess. Nxg7 causes an "explosion" in which both the knight and pawn, as well as the adjacent black rook and bishop, are removed from play. Reason The atomic chess variant revolves around an unusual mechanic (the "explosion" upon capturing a piece).
The following pieces capture the same as they move : Empress (E) Moves as a chess queen; If captured the game is over. Attendant (A) Moves as a chess king without royal powers. Unicorn (U) Moves as a chess knight. A Unicorn has the ability to capture Gorgons. Pawn (P) Moves one step straight or diagonally forward;
Endgame chess (or the Pawns Game, with unknown origins): Players start the game with only pawns and a king. Normal check, checkmate, en passant, and pawn promotion rules apply. [6] Los Alamos chess (or anti-clerical chess): Played on a 6×6 board without bishops. This was the first chess-like game played by a computer program.
The 18-year-old beat defending champion Ding Liren 7.5-6.5 in their best-of-14 final in Singapore on Thursday after the Chinese player blundered in the final game.
Though the four-player "bughouse" chess became prominent in western chess circles in the 1960s, the crazyhouse variant did not rise to prominence until the era of 1990s online chess servers, though it may be traced back further to the "Mad Mate" variant made in 1972 by Alex Randolph, a Bohemian-American game designer who moved to Japan and became an amateur dan-level Shogi player.
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