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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).
If not possible, then black bishop is on g3, g5 or g7. White plays 2.Be5. If Black now plays 2...Bxe5, 3.Nf2#. Otherwise (any move by Black) 3.Nf2+ Bxf2 4.Rxh2#. If 2.Rg8 was possible, White continues 3.Rh8. (This is safe – the black bishop cannot be on h8 to be captured, because it was not on g7 on the previous turn.) 4.Rh5 and 5.Rb5.
Kings moves as a promoted checkers piece: this is the same type of move as a pawn in this game, but now the king can move and take also diagonally backwards. Capturing of one or more pieces is mandatory. The bishop moves and takes exactly as in normal chess. Capturing is not mandatory.
The pawn moves like the modern pawn, but cannot make an initial double step or capture en passant.Its Betza notation is mfWcfF.When it reaches the other end of the board (the twelfth rank for White, or the first rank for Black), it promotes to the piece that was originally there: the exception is that a pawn promoting on the g-file becomes an aanca.
Georgia’s first game will come against Turkey on June 18. On a personal note, though, Webb can scarcely believe the direction his life and career have taken after that chance encounter with ...
Extinction chess is a chess variant invented by R. Wayne Schmittberger, [a] editor of Games magazine, in 1985. [1] [2] Instead of checkmate as the winning condition, the object of the game is the elimination of all of a particular type of piece of the opponent. In other words, the objective is any of the following: capture all the opponent's kings;