Beirut chess

Beirut chess. Normally Black equalizes with 5...Qd4 (diagram) if White plays 5.Nxe5 in the Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6). But here the e5-knight was a bomb carrier and White can play 6.Boom! – winning the queen for knight and pawn.
Bomb carriers can be thought of as wearing suicide vests.

Beirut chess is a chess variant invented by Jim Winslow in 1992.[1][2] The game is played using the standard chess pieces and board, with each side having secretly equipped one of their men with a "bomb"—which can be "detonated" at any time, wiping out all men on surrounding squares along with the bomb carrier.

This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves.
  1. ^ Pritchard (1994), p. 21
  2. ^ Pritchard (2007), p. 152