atomic chess

Submitted by Monky on Sun, 01/27/2008 at 11:19pm.

Has anyone played atomic Chess?

These are the rules:

play in pairs 2x2 on 2 boards with each team having black and white pieces. Both boards are using clocks and the game starts at the same time as a piece is taken it is passed to your team mate to use as he wishes, either as a piece to be placed anywhere on his board now or saved for a later move.

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by skysmurf - 2 days ago
Seattle United States

Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 7

Yes! I used to play this all the time at college! It is totally the best way to play chess :) We called it doubles chess, not atomic.

Basic rules were: If a piece is taken you hand it to your partner. On their next move they can place the piece anywhere except: They cannot put the opponents king in check. They cannot put a pawn on the 7th row. Queening would be done by choosing any piece from your opponents partner.

I think "give me anything" was probably the most heard cry, to stave off checkmate as your clock was running down.

by ThreeQueens - 6 months ago
Durham, North Carolina United States

Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 1265

Yes, I used to play atomic chess in high school... about a zillion years ago. Maybe two zill. "Gimme a knight! Gimme a knight!" And you'd smash it onto the board Boom! and fork your opponent's royalty. It was great fun.

by aristeidis9 - 6 months ago
Thessaloniki Greece

Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 530

Yes i have played this kind of chess sometimes.It has a lot of fun,especially when you play fast games.If your team mate take his opponent queen you suddenly have on your board two queens against your opponent!Very funny and exciting game..

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