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 414 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-11-12    Travis Bickle: <Phony Benoni: ...And just imagine what would happen when <Travis> shows up at the Polo Grounds wearing his Bears' Head!> Thanks for reminding me Dr Benoni! I have to get that Grizzly head squared away. We have a short week as I'll be gassing up the SUV tomorrow morning & heading for the Tri-state to that damn lousy stinkin' cheesehead field! P.S. How she look? ; P http://www.firstpeople.us/pictures/... Sep-11-12    Jim Bartle: At least now you know the Pack isn't invincible at Lambeau Field. The 49ers beat them there on Sunday. Sep-11-12    Travis Bickle: <Jim Bartle> That's what worries me. Most NFL teams don't like to lose 2 in a row at home. Sep-11-12    WannaBe: Whether they 'like it' or not, there is always reality. =) Sep-11-12    WannaBe: Okay, no cheating, which of these team(s) have not won a game yet? 1. Auburn 2. Pittsburgh 3. Penn State 4. Colorado 5. Houston Sep-12-12    Travis Bickle: <WannaBe> Hey Doc, is that the Univeristy of Pittsburgh or The Pittsburgh Pirates? ; P P.S. sigh... Not much of a baseball fan. Sep-12-12    WannaBe: <Travis Bickle: ... Not much of a baseball fan.> Rooting for the Cubs, I can understand that. =)) Of course, them bums (LA Dodgers) lost to Ariz 1-0 last night, after SF Giants beat Colorado 9-5. We dropped another game (behind) for the NL West, plus the Wild Card. Sep-12-12    Travis Bickle: <WannaBe> Well here in Chicago The Cubs are rebuilding... again. We have to be patient, I mean it's only been 104 years since The Cubs won a World series. :0 Sep-12-12    Travis Bickle: Dear Phony, I'm here in greenbay. I think I'm getting drunk in this L cheapo bar with a sea of ugly putrid green jerseys! Television here has the weather, reruns of the TV show Green Acres and milwaukee brewers baseball. I should've waited until midnight tonight to leave for this dairy farmland. If you don't love fishing, moose hunting or drinking red white & blue beer all day there's not a whole lot to do in wisconsin. Even all the women are ugly! Oh 1 more thing, the air here has the putrid stench of cheese! Bears Fan & your Pal, Travis Sep-12-12    Jim Bartle: I assume you're wearing your #34 (or is it #51) Bears jersey in the bar. Sep-12-12    WannaBe: Even ESPN now have a 'coverage' on chess (cheating, that is...) http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id... Sep-12-12    Travis Bickle: <Jim Bartle> Jim in greenbay I always wear 51, with the mohawk & Butkus jersey it scares the hell out of the greenbay faithful. ; P Sep-12-12    Travis Bickle: #51 ; P http://youtu.be/mzALqHe3dXw Sep-13-12    Phony Benoni: <Travis>, That sounds like the start of a bad Blues Brothers sequel. But at least you got a decent TV show. I would have expected http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent.... Sep-13-12    Travis Bickle: <Travis Bickle> Hey Phony not a bad title for a sitcom in Cowville. Maybe they could get Bret Favre, (I'm sure he isn't doing anything but drinking down brewski's and gulpin down Brats with cheese), to play the sherrif of 'Adventure in Dairyland', sort of a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show! Sep-14-12    perfidious: <pgp> The Brett-Gossage encounter I remember best was from the final game of the '80 ALCS; Goose tried to muscle Brett with his standard heat and got to watch it fly a long way. Nice upper-deck shot. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Sep-14-12    Jim Bartle: Somebody, maybe Bill James, wrote that hitting that home run might have been the worst thing for Brett. Before that, pitchers still thought they could get Brett out with fastballs, they figured they could get anyone out. But when he hit Gossage's best way out of the park they all figured "No more fastballs over the plate" and it was tougher for Brett from then on. Sep-14-12    Shams: Is there a story behind Gaylord Perry's name? I've never heard of anyone else with that first name, and I probably never will. It's quite a name any way you slice it. Sep-14-12    TheFocus: On this page are several Gaylords. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord Sep-14-12    TheFocus: And you may recognize this comedian/actor with a similar spelling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gailar... Sep-14-12    Shams: <TheFocus> Ahh, Gailard, of course. Should have known it was French. Sep-14-12    Phony Benoni: According to his Wikipedia biography: <"Gaylord Perry was named after a close friend of his father's, who died while having his teeth pulled."> They cite the 2001 edition of Bill James' "Baseball Abstract", so it must be true. Though you can prove anything with statistics. Sep-15-12    Phony Benoni: So what do you do when you run off the field at the end of an inning, only to realize there are just two out? http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/e... Sep-15-12    Jim Bartle: I remember that shortly after he was traded to Philadelphia, John Kruk caught a fly ball in leftfield and started trotting in, thinking it was the third out. The runner on second scored. Kruk took all the guff and asked for forgiveness. Even David Letterman asked him about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkLV... It's right at the end. Sep-15-12    Phony Benoni: And then there's the infamous Larry Walker play, where he gave the ball to a fan thinking there were three outs, then returned and took it back. I think that counts as a wild throw into the stands, and the runners get two bases (7.05g). Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 414 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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