2 Atomic1, but white's first move is a pawn removal.
5 At the very first move of the game, white must remove a pawn,
7 Black then replies, and the game continues normally.
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11 | fen:rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR:
12 figcaption After 1.e2X, pawn removal at e2.
17 | This variant aims at balancing the big white's advantage in Atomic1.
18 | It was suggested (relayed?) and analyzed recently (2020) by a strong
19 | Atomic player (Gannet on Discord). See
20 a(href="https://discord.com/channels/686736099959504907/687076744095858762/762398439043498046")
22 | on Discord vchess server.