Jim West On Chess: "Atomic Patzer" Returns

Thursday, October 25, 2007

"Atomic Patzer" Returns

On Monday, I received this e-mail:

Hi, Jim West:

I found Atomic Patzer (Master?) chess blog interesting, but as of October 20, 2007 his blog is off line . I know Atomic Patzer got shut out in quad 5, at Hamilton chess quads on Saturday Oct. 20, 2007 with zero points.
Do you know if Thomas's chess blog will ever come back on line, or is he on temporary hiatus and regrouping his efforts?

signed Diamondback

I am glad to report that Atomic Patzer is back. Unfortunately, all of his previous posts have been lost.

"My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, and have never regarded it as anything else, for all the science and sport involved in it. And, moreover, an art which in some ways is closer to music than it is customary to think. Perhaps chess and music are drawn together by laws of harmony and beauty which are difficult to formulate and difficult to grasp, or perhaps by something else." - Vasily Smyslov