A chess variant is any game derived from or related to chess. In practice, a specific chess variant may be similar to chess or radically different. The broad definition of chess variants is so universal, it may include nearly any abstract battle or war game played upon a board.
ATLAS: A Toroidal LHC Apparatus
CMS: Compact Muon Solenoid
LHCb: LHC-beauty
ALICE: A Large Ion Collider Experiment
TOTEM: Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation
LHCf: LHC-forward
CERN operates a network of six accelerators and a decelerator. Each machine in the chain increases the energy of particle beams before delivering them to experiments or to the next more powerful accelerator. Currently active machines are:
