Phony Benoni Member since Feb-10-06 · Last seen Jun-11-22 Greetings, O Seeker After Knowledge! You have arrived in Dearborn, Michigan (whether you like it or not), and are reading words of wisdom from a player rated 2938--plus or minus 1000 points. However, I've retired from serious play--not that I ever took playing chess all that seriously. You only have to look at my games to see that. These days I pursue the simple pleasures of finding games that are bizarre or just plain funny. I'd rather enjoy a game than analyze it. For the record, my name is David Moody. This probably means nothing to you unless you're a longtime player from Michigan, though it's possible that if you attended any US Opens from 1975-1999 we might have crossed paths. Lucky you. If you know me at all, you'll realize that most of my remarks are meant to be humorous. I do this deliberately, so that if my analysis stinks to High Heaven I can always say that I was just joking. As you can undoubtedly tell from my sparkling wit, I'm a librarian in my spare time. Even worse, I'm a cataloger, which means I keep log books for cattle. Also, I'm not one of those extroverts who sit at the Reference Desk and help you with research. Instead, I spend all day staring at a computer screen updating and maintaining information in the library's catalog. The general public thinks Reference Librarians are dull. Reference Librarians think Catalogers are dull. My greatest achievement in chess, other than tricking you into reading this, was probably mating with king, bishop and knight against king in a tournament game. I have to admit that this happened after an adjournment, and that I booked up like crazy before resuming. By the way, the fact I have had adjourned games shows you I've been around too long. My funniest moment occurred when I finally got a chance to pull off a smothered mate in actual play. You know, 1.Nf7+ Kg8 2.Nh6+ Kh8 3.Qg8+ Rxg8 4.Nf7#. When I played the climactic queen check my opponent looked at the board in shocked disbelief and said, "But that's not mate! I can take the queen!" Finally, I must confess that I once played a positional move, back around 1982. I'll try not to let that happen again.

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Jun-11-22 M Blau vs Keres, 1959    Phony Benoni: Not a good recommendation for the DERLD. Out of 59 moves, White makes only three in Black's half of the board. And two of those conist of 3.Bb5 and 6.Bxc6.      Jun-11-22 chessgames.com chessforum    Phony Benoni: Er, it's back. Karpov vs Timman, 1988      Jun-10-22 Orlo Milo Rolo   Phony Benoni: Marco!      Jun-10-22 Lilienthal vs Bondarevsky, 1947   Phony Benoni: Another one for you King Hunters. Black's monarch travels fron g8 to b8, then takes the Great Circle Route back to h3 before calling it a day.      Jun-10-22 GrahamClayton chessforum    Phony Benoni: <GrahamClayton> I've posted a question for you at L T Magee vs J Holland, 1948      Jun-10-22 L T Magee vs E L Holland, 1948    Phony Benoni: <GrahamClayton> The source you cite, <Chess Review, May 1948, p. 24>, gives Black's name as <E Holland> "Chess Life" (June 5, 1948, p. 1) has a table of results giving <E L Holland>. That form also appears in USCF rating supplements for a player fro ...      Jun-09-22 Biographer Bistro    Phony Benoni: SkinnVer Here Among the Fold?      Jun-09-22 Flohr vs Bondarevsky, 1947    Phony Benoni: Black's bishop makes me think of Godzilla emerging from the depths of the ocean to wreak havoc. However, in the end it's his Two Little Friends who steal the show. Well, maybe not so litt.      Jun-06-22 W Ritson-Morry vs G T Crown, 1947   Phony Benoni: it was the last round. Rison-Morry was mired in last place. These things happen.      Jun-06-22 W Adams vs M Kagan, 1947   Phony Benoni: Some more informztion. The game was published in <Chess Review>, March 1948, p. 23. Black's name is given as "M Kagan", and the location as "Massachusetts". There is no other game data, but I think we can now safely assume Black is <Milton Kagan>. Earlier in the ...

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 881 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Aug-27-17    perfidious: <PB....Right now we use "Western Championship", but more accurate would be "Western Chess Association Tournament."....> Fair enough--I will let it lie for now. Aug-28-17    technical draw: <Penguincw> <Meanwhile, Stanton just hit his 50th HR of the season today. Excluding Bonds, McGuire and Sosa, only Maris has done it earlier than Aug/27 (at Aug/22). Maris of course, also holds the record at 61, if you exclude those 3 men.> Yes, those 3 men are the ones with the * asterisk. Aug-28-17    saffuna: Stanton has something worse. He has developed a hypnotic power which makes pitchers throw fastballs right down the middle, thigh high. Of course he still has to hit them... Aug-28-17    saffuna: Some of the nicknames this weekend were pretty good: Corey's Brother Little Papi Bat Boy (a pitcher who looks 14) Mookie Betts should have used "Markus." Aug-28-17    WannaBe: Number of times LAD have been shutout this year: 4/4 v SD 4-0 4/13 v Cubs 4-0 6/1 @ STL 2-0 6/4 @ MIL 3-0 6/26 @ LAA 4-0 8/23 @ PIT 1-0 (ruined no-hitter) 8/26 v MIL 3-0 As a team, LAD have thrown 13 shutouts, 2 less than league leader CLE. Least? SFG with 2. Another useless stat, LAD have 10 balks this year, one less than SD (11), STL have zero. Aug-28-17    Penguincw: < Stanton has something worse. He has developed a hypnotic power which makes pitchers throw fastballs right down the middle, thigh high. > Well one reason for this could be due to lineup protection. Check out Ozuna's stats: .309/31/102. 300/30/100 guy! If you don't want to pitch to .296/50/108, you'll have to pitch to .309/31/102. Pick your poison (and the rest of the lineup is pretty deep too). Aug-28-17    Penguincw: LAD sucks! They lost back-to-back games. They just lost back-to-back games on July 20-21, now they lose 2 in a row, <again>. And they lost the series too. They just lost a series to WSH on June 5-7, now they lose another one. Ugh. --- I know <PB> said math is not a summertime activity, but LAD's magic number to clinch a postseason spot is 9. If they won their last 2, and MIL lost their last 2, it would be 5. LAD would have the opportunity to clinch a postseason spot in August... Aug-28-17    saffuna: <Well one reason for this could be due to lineup protection. > Sure, and I'm being somewhat facetious. But I see the videos of all the home runs (which are rockets) and they all appear to be fastballs right down the middle. He's not getting the Bonds 2001-2002 treatment at all. Everybody see the video of Simmons hitting the home run while falling down? Fantastic. Aug-28-17    WannaBe: Thank you KNBR-AM 680, flagship of SFG radio station. 43 innings and counting, by KC. 4 straight (being) shutout, this include their second inning score vs COL on 8/24. Since the third inning of the said game, KC have not scored... According to KNBR, no team have been shutout 5 straight games, not sure if this modern day or all history of MLB. But it is possible that tomorrow TB@KC (Cobb and Junis) that the game can go 30 innings scoreless, and KC score a run to win, and still break the (all-time) record. That is your useless information of the day. My pleasure. =)) Aug-28-17    WannaBe: According to this article, the longest streak is 48 innings, set in the mid 1940s... https://www.fishstripes.com/2013/7/... Need to do more (re)search. Aug-29-17    WannaBe: KC Royals are 5 innings shy of the record. If I read this article correctly. http://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameI... Aug-29-17    technical draw: I think the most important batting stat in baseball is the RBI. I know the home run is more thrilling and batting avg. identifies the better hitters, but without runs all is for nought. Stanton is tied with Arenado so far with 108 RBI's. Aug-29-17    WannaBe: In theory, you can hit 162 HRs and still bat under .200 =)) Aug-29-17    saffuna: <I think the most important batting stat in baseball is the RBI. I know the home run is more thrilling and batting avg. identifies the better hitters, but without runs all is for nought. Stanton is tied with Arenado so far with 108 RBI's.> Runs scored is just as important as RBIs. Rickey Henderson's high in RBI was 61. He scored more than 100 thirteen times. Aug-29-17    technical draw: <Runs scored is just as important as RBIs> More like an effect of an RBI. Aug-29-17    saffuna: <td> And you can say the opposite as well: RBIs are the effect of having men on base when the batter comes up. If there's nobody on base there's nobody to drive in. Both stats are important. If you have Henderson, Boggs, Rose or Raines leading off, or Jeter or Morgan hitting second, the 3-4-5 hitters are going to get a lot of RBIs, even if they aren't that great. Aug-29-17    technical draw: <saffuna> Your theory sounds plausible but not convincing. If you hit a home run you get an RBI with no one on base. Aug-29-17    saffuna: Damn! I was hoping you wouldn't notice that. Especially this year, when a greater percentage of runs are being scored on home runs. So <ignoring home runs>, where a player gets both a run and an RBI, runs scored are as important as RBIs. Aug-29-17    WannaBe: KC scored a run!!! Aug-29-17    technical draw: When you hear a ballgame the announcer will say something like, "Coming to bat is TD who is batting .349 with 43 home runs and 122 RBI's. Rarely will you hear how many runs he scores. You will hear it if in fact he scores a run but not before. Aug-29-17    saffuna: You're right, TD. And they're wrong to do it. Especially for the 1-2 hitters. Bill James wrote quite a bit about this. He thought runs scored were just as important. Aug-29-17    technical draw: This is turning into a debate like the Bohr-Einstein debates about Quantum Mechanics. (OK, maybe not quite). Aug-29-17    saffuna: How many RBIs did Bohr have? Aug-29-17    technical draw: < How many RBIs did Bohr have?> Not many. He was a boring player. The runs scored records and the RBI records per season tend to be appx. the same. However most of the runs scored records predate 1930. Aug-29-17    WannaBe: Most hits in a season, before Ichiro probably not many have heard of George Sisler. Speaking of RBI, Hack Wilson's record is up there with Joe DiMaggio and probably Ted Williams and Fernando Tatis/Chan Ho Park, and C. Ripkins Jr. Here is one record that I can break, I can do it with 1,501 At-bats. http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/... If I average 5 at bats a game, I can do it in 300 games, 162 games per year, I can do it in about/approx. 1.75 seasons. And it took Sale how many years?! Phooooey! 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