Editing Atomic chess (section)

==History==
In 1995 the German Internet Chess Server (GICS) introduced the game, based on rules one of its users collected from friends who played offline.<ref name=gics>{{cite web |last=Knopper |first=Klaus |date=27 November 1995 |title=Atomic Chess Rules |publisher=Guide to the Internet Chess Server |url=http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~chess/gicshelp/node165.html |access-date=24 May 2014 |archive-date=10 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010042948/http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~chess/gicshelp/node165.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=vlasov>{{cite web |title=Vlasov's Atomic-Chess Homepage |url=http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~chess/atomic/ |access-date=24 May 2014 |archive-date=25 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325141150/http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~chess/atomic/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It was soon after incorporated into the Middle East Wild Internet Server (MEWIS) and other smaller servers before being implemented at [[Chess Live]] and [[Internet Chess Club]] in 2000, [[Free Internet Chess Server]] in 2003 and [[Lichess]] in 2015.<ref name=nicklongatomic>{{cite web |last=Long |first=Nick |title=Atomic Chess |work=Chronatog.com |url=https://chronatog.com/atomic-chess/ |access-date=12 June 2020 |archive-date=12 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612042711/https://chronatog.com/atomic-chess/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Atomic Chess! And more |work=lichess.org |url=https://lichess.org/blog/VLPYGCkAACkAnY7D/atomic-chess-and-more |access-date=2017-11-08 |archive-date=2018-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818084110/https://lichess.org/blog/VLPYGCkAACkAnY7D/atomic-chess-and-more |url-status=live }}</ref> It was added to [[Chess.com]] in late 2020. In 2021, 4.9 million atomic chess games were played on [[Lichess]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Lichess Variants Database|url=https://database.lichess.org/#variant_games }}</ref> [[Lichess]] also hosts 24-hour tournaments called "Atomic Revolution" with cash prizes where 8 thousand people participated in the 2022 edition.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lichess Variant Revolutions 2022 |date=27 October 2022 |url=https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/lichess-variant-revolutions-2022/J9beEcuf}}</ref>

It has garnered serious attention from  [[Grandmaster_(chess)|chess grandmasters]] with [[Andrew Tang]] reaching quarterfinals and [[Jeffery Xiong]] reaching semifinals of Atomic Chess Championship 2017 hosted on [[Lichess]], where both got knocked out by GM Arka50 who has won the championship in 2017, 2018 and 2020 whereas he did not participate in 2019 and 2021 editions.<ref>{{cite web|title=THE 2017 ATOMIC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS|url=https://chronatog.com/2019/07/the-2017-atomic-world-championships/ }}</ref>