Atomic Chess Online
Play Atomic chess free online — every capture explodes, wiping out the surrounding pieces, and blowing up the enemy king wins on the spot.
- Family
- Modern chess variants
- Origin
- International
- Board
- 8 × 8
- Players
- 2
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
Choose a mode inside the board: two players, vs computer, or online with a room code.
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About Atomic chess
How explosions work
When a piece captures, both the capturing and the captured piece are removed together with every non-pawn piece on the eight surrounding squares. Pawns survive explosions unless they are the piece captured. Kings never capture, because they would destroy themselves.
A move that would explode your own king is illegal, and exploding the enemy king — by capturing anything next to it — wins immediately, even if you are in check yourself.
Strategy
Keep your king away from your other pieces and never let the two kings stand adjacent — neither side can then capture near them. Early queen raids that threaten a capture beside the king decide many games, so watch the squares around your king from the very first moves.