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As a long-time theater person*, I had to read your text to understand what this was...

Congratulations again on your honor.

*On one occasion, while I was at my local library near closing, I heard an attendant announce, "The library closes in fifteen minutes." I reflexively and dutifully responded, "Thank you, fifteen" (just as a cast member would when the stage manage announces the time until curtain).

So, I am back from the Nobel prize festivities in Stockholm. Here is a picture of professor Agostini's lecture for the physics prize in the Aula Magna, where he presents his 'winning team':

Any idea from where he got my picture? ;-)

Same kind of idea in atomic chess

https://www.chessvariants.com/difftaking.dir/bomberchess.html

If you really want to lean into that, you could borrow some pieces from Scheherazade and/or Desert Dust. But if you go that route, make only the Pawns explosive.

I got an idea for a variant, but it is rather obvious, so I cannot imagine someone hasn't thought of it before. The variant is as orthodox chess, except that pieces do not capture by replacement, but can explode where they stand (which takes a turn), to destroy all adjacent pieces (friend or foe). I would call the variant 'Terrorissimo', as rather than warriors which jump their enemies to kill them in combat, all pieces are suicide bombers. It is not allowed to blow up your own King, even if this would take out the enemy King as well.