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 882 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Aug-29-17    WannaBe: Okay, seriously, (no, really...) Fewest Innings to reach 1,500Ks C. Sale 1290 K. Wood 1303 P. Martinez 1337 R. Johnson 1365 2/3 N. Ryan 1384 2/3 http://www.espn.com/espn/now?nowId=... Who's N. Ryan?? Aug-29-17    technical draw: <Who's N. Ryan??> Nancy Ryan. Played secretly as a man because of gender discrimination. Aug-29-17    saffuna: <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.> I happened to look at precisely the 1930 season the other day. The scoring was unbelievable. The Giants batted .315 as a team. The Phillies gave up 1,100 runs! Their best pitcher, Phil Collins, had a 4.78 ERA and against all odds still went 16-11. The career runs scored leaders are Henderson, Cobbs, Barry Bonds, Aaron, Rose, Ruth, Mays and Rodriguez. Mostly modern players. But you're right about the single-season records. All old-timers, except Billy Hamilton at #6. Tip O'Neill was #4. Oops, Hamilton did it in 1895. Probably not the same guy. The highest post-1950 year was Jeff Bagwell at #30 with 152 in 2000. Aug-29-17    technical draw: Any record that can be set can be tied. And almost all can be broken. However I don't think it's possible to break Fernando Tatis' record of 2 grand slam home runs in the same inning. To break it a player must hit 3 grand slams which means he has to come to bat with the bases loaded at least 3 times in one inning. The odds of that happening is beyond mind boggling. And then he has to hit another home run when and if that happens. I'm sure some mathematician can come up with the odds provided he's familiar with the word "astronomical". Aug-29-17    saffuna: Hack Wilson's 190 RBIs in 1930 would be awfully tough to break as well. Ryan's 5700 K's, which are almost 1000 ahead of second-place Carlton. Aug-30-17    WannaBe: <TD> It was 2 Grand-Salamis against the same pitcher, too. =)) Aug-30-17    saffuna: Now that's a surprise! I listened to the game where Atlanta pitcher Tony Cloninger hit two grand slams. Not in the same inning, though. Aug-30-17    technical draw: Hall of Famer Warren Spahn is known as one of the great pitchers of all time. However he has another record: He has hit at least one home run in 17 different seasons. There have been some pretty good hitting pitchers but with the AL designated hitter rule breaking records will be harder. Aug-30-17    saffuna: That's an interesting record. His high was four in 81 at bats in 1955. Aug-30-17    Penguincw: <KC Scoreless Streak> Speaking of scoreless streaks, how about the Jays vs. Sale? The Jays have faced Sale for 22 innings this season, and have scored <zero> runs off of him. I know he's a good pitcher, but really, not even one? Oh well. --- <Most Important Stat> I really have no answer. I always thought it was OPS, with other stats like AVG with RISP, OBP and WAR being important too. However, when I look at a player to see how they're doing, I usually look at AVG/HR/RBI (probably because it's the easiest to view). Aug-30-17    saffuna: I don't claim any stat is the most important. I just think runs scored is as important as RBI. Aug-30-17    saffuna: In 1966 Cards' rookie Larry Jaster shut out the NL champion Dodgers five consecutive times. That's 45 innings. He went 6-5 against the rest of the league with a plus 4.00 ERA, in an era with very low scoring. And the Dodgers were a very low-scoring team, 8th in the league, with no power at all (108 HRs). But an average pitcher shuttng them out five straight times? Aug-30-17    WannaBe: Single-A baseball in Dayton, Ohio with 18-year sell out streak. Yes, eighteen years. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/... Aug-30-17    Penguincw: <Unbreakable Record> There's a whole page on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_... The records I think that are most unbreakable, are those that occurred in the dead ball era (ex. 511 career wins). Also unbreakable are those inning records, ex. Tatis' record. Remember, to <break> it, you have to hit <3> in one inning, which'll require at least 23 PA and 20 runs in an inning, which in general, don't occur very often. The record for most hits in an inning is 3. To get 4 hits will require a minimum of 28 plate appearances and 26 runs, in one inning. I guess the same can be applied to other records, like most cycles in one game (you would have to hit 2 cycles). Surprisingly, a lot of these records just listed may never be broken at the MLB level, but at an amateur level, maybe. Looking through the records and trying to find out which record is unbeatable, even if you use a video game, again, the pitching dead-ball era records are hard to break. 101 road losses looks hard too, even if you include the postseason. Aug-30-17    WannaBe: I can break that career base on balls record (N. Ryan), if they'd let me. Aug-30-17    saffuna: Justin Verlander got his first career RBI today, in his 11 years. Aug-30-17    technical draw: <Wannabe:I can break that career base on balls record (N. Ryan), if they'd let me.> As a pitcher I can break the most hit batsman and most wild pitches in a game. And all in the first inning! Aug-31-17    WannaBe: LAD's first 4-game losing streak of the season. And later today it's Maeda v Greinke. (5-game?) I think I saw Magic furiously pressing the Panic Button. =)) Aug-31-17    WannaBe: Holy Harry Carey, 7-1 D'Backs... It's only the bottom of the third. Sep-01-17    saffuna: Verlander to Houston. Sep-01-17    Phony Benoni: At least we no longer have to go to toleoo to watch Triple-A baseball. . Sep-01-17    WannaBe: Houston definitely stocked up (players from LAA & DET) for their championship run... Sep-01-17    WannaBe: CC need to realize, teams want to win, and will take any advantage(s) they see fit. http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/... Sep-01-17    WannaBe: http://www.espn.com/blog/statsinfo/... <In the period with multiple wild-card teams (since 2012), there has not been a season when each team in wild-card position entering September held on to make the playoffs.> Sep-01-17    saffuna: TEN of the leaders in OBP are bunched between .400 and .430. Then there's Joey Votto at .450. And he's not a singles hitter, has 34 homers. And he does it year after year. Why do we almost never hear about this player? Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 882 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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