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p.boxed.
  Each capture results in an "explosion" through which all surrounding
  pieces other than pawns are removed from the board.

p.
  When a piece P captures an opponent figure on some square S, all pieces
  sitting on a square reachable by a king move from S are removed, including P
  itself.
  The pawns, however, remain: they have to be taken directly to disappear.

p.
  Suicide is forbidden. Thus a king can touch the opponent king and become
  immune to checks, like on the following diagrams: 1.Rxf5 is impossible.

figure.diagram-container
  .diagram.diag12
    | fen:rnb5/pp4pp/2p5/N4pK1/3P2k1/8/PP4PP/5R2 a5,b7:
  .diagram.diag22
    | fen:8/p5pp/2p5/5pK1/3P2k1/8/PP4PP/5R2:
  figcaption Left: before 1.Nxb7. Right: after capture.

h3 End of the game

p There are two ways to win, by decreasing strength order:
ol
  li Explode opponent king
  li Checkmate opponent king

p Explosions have priority: a checkmate followed by a king explosion loses.

figure.diagram-container
  .diagram.diag12
    | fen:3rkbnr/pb1pp2p/npp5/q4ppQ/P1B1P3/NP5N/1BPP1PPP/R3K2R:
  .diagram.diag22
    | fen:3rkbnr/pb1pp2p/npp5/5ppQ/P1B1P3/NP5N/1BP2PPP/R6R:
  figcaption 1.Qh5+ (left) 1...Qxd2# (right), black wins.

h3 Balancing

p.
  White has a big advantage in this variant. In order to balance the odds,
  you can select "Balanced" to let white choose any pawn (any color) to
  remove before the game starts.
  The game then continues normally, black playing first.

p
  | This was suggested (relayed?) and analyzed recently (2020) by a strong
  | Atomic player (Gannet on Discord). See 
  a(href="https://discord.com/channels/686736099959504907/687076744095858762/762398439043498046")
    | the messages
  | &nbsp;on Discord vchess server.

h3 More information

p.
  Many resources can be found on the web (this variation is played on lichess
  and FICS, among others).
  This game was played first in 1995 at the German Internet Chess Server (GICS)
  according to Wikipedia.
Commit	Line	Data
0596f5e7	1	p.boxed.
1042fd0a BA	2	Each capture results in an "explosion" through which all surrounding
1042fd0a BA	3	pieces other than pawns are removed from the board.
1d184b4c	4
e8e4adbd	5	p.
1042fd0a BA	6	When a piece P captures an opponent figure on some square S, all pieces
	7	sitting on a square reachable by a king move from S are removed, including P
	8	itself.
	9	The pawns, however, remain: they have to be taken directly to disappear.
1d184b4c	10
0596f5e7	11	p.
1042fd0a BA	12	Suicide is forbidden. Thus a king can touch the opponent king and become
1042fd0a BA	13	immune to checks, like on the following diagrams: 1.Rxf5 is impossible.
0596f5e7	14
1d184b4c	15	figure.diagram-container
1042fd0a BA	16	.diagram.diag12
	17	\| fen:rnb5/pp4pp/2p5/N4pK1/3P2k1/8/PP4PP/5R2 a5,b7:
	18	.diagram.diag22
	19	\| fen:8/p5pp/2p5/5pK1/3P2k1/8/PP4PP/5R2:
	20	figcaption Left: before 1.Nxb7. Right: after capture.
1d184b4c BA	21
	22	h3 End of the game
	23
	24	p There are two ways to win, by decreasing strength order:
	25	ol
1042fd0a BA	26	li Explode opponent king
1042fd0a BA	27	li Checkmate opponent king
1d184b4c BA	28
	29	p Explosions have priority: a checkmate followed by a king explosion loses.
	30
0596f5e7	31	figure.diagram-container
10cceb25 BA	32	.diagram.diag12
	33	\| fen:3rkbnr/pb1pp2p/npp5/q4ppQ/P1B1P3/NP5N/1BPP1PPP/R3K2R:
	34	.diagram.diag22
	35	\| fen:3rkbnr/pb1pp2p/npp5/5ppQ/P1B1P3/NP5N/1BP2PPP/R6R:
	36	figcaption 1.Qh5+ (left) 1...Qxd2# (right), black wins.
	37
	38	h3 Balancing
	39
	40	p.
	41	White has a big advantage in this variant. In order to balance the odds,
	42	you can select "Balanced" to let white choose any pawn (any color) to
	43	remove before the game starts.
	44	The game then continues normally, black playing first.
	45
	46	p
	47	\| This was suggested (relayed?) and analyzed recently (2020) by a strong
	48	\| Atomic player (Gannet on Discord). See
	49	a(href="https://discord.com/channels/686736099959504907/687076744095858762/762398439043498046")
	50	\| the messages
	51	\|  on Discord vchess server.
1d184b4c	52
e081ffe3	53	h3 More information
1d184b4c	54
e8e4adbd	55	p.
1042fd0a BA	56	Many resources can be found on the web (this variation is played on lichess
	57	and FICS, among others).
	58	This game was played first in 1995 at the German Internet Chess Server (GICS)
	59	according to Wikipedia.