Jim West On Chess: Atomic Patzer's "YouTube" Channel

Monday, July 21, 2008

Atomic Patzer's "YouTube" Channel

Chess blogger Atomic Patzer has revamped his blog to include a photo gallery, as well as a video Diaper with a bizarre ending from the Hamilton quads on June 14th of this year. You can find the same video and others at his YouTube channel.

The one called Post Mortem was shot at last month's Viking quads on June 28th. It shows Boris Privman and me analyzing my second round loss against Mauricio Camejo, with some assistance from Camejo and Andrew Ng, much to the consternation of Frank Romano in quad two.

In the background of Mike vs. Diamondback, you can see me playing against Kavinayan Sivakumar on June 22nd at the Dean of Chess Academy, a month ago. Yes, he is the same Diamondback whose e-mails have been featured at my blog in past entries!

"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