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The first-move advantage enjoyed by White is much greater in this game than in standard chess. However, no attempts to prove a win for White have been successful. Material sacrifices are more common in atomic chess than in chess. In the opening and middlegame, it is common to offer a piece in order to open spaces to seize an initiative. [2]
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).
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.
In 2022, it was estimated that the world's strongest chess engine, Stockfish, which is free and open source, could be expected to beat the world's strongest human player, Magnus Carlsen, in 98% of games. [3] For ordinary chess players, prone to inaccuracies and blunders, defeating engine assisted play is only possible if and when cheaters make ...
Nigerian chess champion Tunde Onakoya has broken the record for the longest chess marathon after playing for an extraordinary 60 hours nonstop.
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.
Israel wasted no time after Bashar al-Assad’s fall to bomb all the Syrian military assets it wanted to keep out of the rebels’ hands – striking nearly 500 targets, destroying the navy, and ...
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.