Atomic Chess

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**Atomic Chess**,
a chess variant which applies the standard rules of chess, but [[Captures|capturing]] a [[Pieces|piece]] leads to an explosion with the effect that, in addition to the captured piece, the capturing piece and all non-pawns on neighboring squares are removed from the board. For [[En passant|en passant]], the center of the explosion is at the target square behind the pawn being captured. Captures that result in the explosion of the own king are illegal, and therefore a king can never capture any other piece, and it is possible to move the kings next to each other.

=Atomic Check=
In most variations of atomic chess, players must respond to being [[Check|checked]] in a similar way they would in traditional chess - by moving the king out of check, blocking the check, or removing the checking piece - but an exception exists when the checked player can win the game by exploding the checking player's king. The variant of atomic chess played at [[Internet Chess Club]] is one that does not enforce check at all, where leaving the own king to be captured directly in the next move is legal <ref>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_chess|Atomic chess from Wikipedia]]</ref>.
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=Engines=
To expand this list of [[Engines|engines]] able to play Atomic Chess, create a new engine page with the [[Guidance for Creating New Pages#Tags|tag]] "[[https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/tag/view/atomic|atomic]]", or assign the tag to appropriate existing engine pages.
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=Publications=
* [[Sacha Droste]], [[Johannes Fürnkranz]] (**2008**). //Learning of Piece Values for Chess Variants.// Technical Report TUD–KE–2008-07, Knowledge Engineering Group, [[Darmstadt University of Technology|TU Darmstadt]], [[http://www.ke.tu-darmstadt.de/publications/reports/tud-ke-2008-07.pdf|pdf]]
* [[Sacha Droste]], [[Johannes Fürnkranz]] (**2008**). //Learning the Piece Values for three Chess Variants//. [[ICGA Journal#31_4|ICGA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 4]]

=Forum Posts=
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=33464|Atomic Chess]] by Stefan Roehrich, [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], March 30, 2001
* [[http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=52529|winboard and variant engines]] by shaxmatist, [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], August 18, 2012
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50498|UCI variants support]] by [[Balint Pfliegel]], [[CCC]], December 15, 2013

=External Links=
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_chess|Atomic chess from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://www.nicklong.net/chess/atomic/|Atomic Chess by Nick Long]]
* [[Videos#AtomicRooster|Atomic Rooster]] - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Hearing_of_Atomic_Rooster|Devil's Answer]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_of_the_Pops|Top of The Pops]], July 1971, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube|YouTube]] Video
> [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Crane|Vincent Crane]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hammond_(musician)|Paul Hammond]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Du_Cann|John Du Cann]]
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=References= 
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