Atomic Chess! :-D

Spoke too soon. This is indeed a bug. I've raised an issue on github: github.com/ornicar/lila/issues/248 . Will fix it as a soon as I can.

Thanks for bring it to my attention :D

How can I watch live high rated Atomic Chess games?

This is the variant that captures my imagination, because it is relatively unexplored, so there is room for making up theory for myself, and I find it quite subtle.

@casualr: We did talk a while back about having more TV options for watching variants. We might do that at some point, not sure...

For now though, I usually find a tournament in the tournaments list that's playing atomic and there are usually high rated players playing in there :D.

Why did I lose this game or am I missing something:
http://en.lichess.org/Lxf6XW7y#11

I had the opponent in check yet he moved ignoring that check.

#49 Please see #43

Ok, I wish I read the thread first however I still have a question. Does this allowance also count if you give the opponent a check, and he can reply by checkmating your king but now blowing him up, such as in this screenshot scenario:


It's black to move after white moved the pawn on e4 and captured the black pawn on d5. Black is now in check but he can move his queen to d1 for an instant win, but now blowing up the king, so does black have to acknowledge the check in this scenario or can it be ignored?

meant to write *not

A player can only remain in check following his move if he/she explodes the opponent's king - the above example is not the case.

I'm curious as to how that game turned out after ...Be6 & Qd3?

I'm curious why I started playing this variant so good and now I'm struggling to stay in the 1600s, I guess life is full of mysteries, thank you for the clarification I thought that was the case