Phony Benoni Member since Feb-10-06 · Last seen May-19-13 Greetings, O Seeker After Knowledge! You have arrived in Detroit, Michigan (whether you like it or not), and are reading words of wisdom from a player rated 2950--plus or minus 1000 points. However, I've more or less retired from serious play--not that I ever took chess really 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 U.S. 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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May-19-13 Phony Benoni chessforum   Phony Benoni: <keypusher> Well, there are several things: 1) Good ballplayer with a .322 lifetime average who played on five pennant winners in his ten-year career; 2) Tragedy factor: died from Bright's Disease at the age of 30 3) New York bias; played entire career with the Giants; 4)      May-19-13 H Simonian vs Lutsko, 2007    Phony Benoni: Looking at the contrast between White's queen and Black's king, I might have preferred "The Tortoise and the Hrair."      May-19-13 Yifan Hou vs Lahno, 2012    Phony Benoni: I predict that nobody will get the exact sequence of moves today.      May-18-13 Ding Liren vs Aronian, 2013    Phony Benoni: <mmmjv> There are several moves where White could have taken the d7. He probably didn't because the b6 was actually a stronger piece than the ...      May-18-13 Lasker vs Showalter, 1902   Phony Benoni: The New York Times (10/22/1902) reports that the game was adjourned at the 51st move. Showalter later resigned without resuming (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 10/27/1902).      May-18-13 Blackburne vs F J Lee, 1904   Phony Benoni: <My Face> Not quite. There's a reason it's called Anderssen's Opening: Anderssen vs Morphy, 1858 And the database actually has games with it dating back to 1839: Kieseritzky vs H H Boncourt, 1839 Now, it's now been the most successful of openings; White only scoring ...      May-18-13 technical draw chessforum    Phony Benoni: Laughter, the Best Medicine. From the "New York Times", April 19, 1902: <"Dr. Nathaniel Marston Freeman, a wealthy retired physician ... died suddenly in the Aschenbroedel Club ... last night from heart disease. "He had been playing chess with one of the club members when ...      May-18-13 Kenneth Rogoff    Phony Benoni: From the "New York Times", March 15, 1902: <"It matters not that the 'Game of Chess' was not the first book printed in England--that honor being possessed by 'Dictes of the Philosophers,' 1477..."> So even before there was Chess, there was The Rogoff Page!      May-18-13 Biographer Bistro    Phony Benoni: <thomastonk> I don't know if the history of 19th century national chess associations in the United States has been researched in detailed. One place to look for some fragmentary information is the Book of the Fifth American Congress. This contains a brief memoir of each ...      May-17-13 Reti vs Breyer, 1913    Phony Benoni: I'm not sure what to say. I suggested this pun, but for an entirely different game. But it was removed from my "Pun List", so maybe I get half credit. Not that it matters. "Spoonful" is not going to be easy to beat this year.

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 391 OF 484 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jun-17-12    Phony Benoni: The record for most hits allowed in a game is 29, by Eddie Rommel. And: (a) He wasn't the starting pitcher; (b) He won the game! http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... The story is that the A's were the middle of a homestand, but traveled to Cleveland for this one make-up game. They had played doubleheaders each of the previous three days, so their staff was a bit short anyway. With that in mind, and to save a bit of money, Connie Mack took only two pitchers with the team. Starter Lew Krause was so ineffective that Mack yanked him after one inning, so Rommel (who had pitched five innings over the previous two days) had to finish the game, no matter what. Rommel didn't pitch again for six weeks, and his career (which, admittedly, was already winding down) was effectively ended by this effort. It was too much even for a knuckleballer. Jun-17-12    Jim Bartle: Why take Rommel out? He had three hits! Jun-17-12    WannaBe: Too busy fighting Monntgomery?? Jun-17-12    Jim Bartle: Maybe they were tanking. Jun-17-12    CharlyNY: Oh, that was a funny read :D Jun-18-12    Phony Benoni: Every day, the Elias Sports Bureau comes up with something unique: <There were two MLB games that ended after 15 innings on Sunday (Milwaukee vs. Minnesota and St. Louis vs. Kansas City) and there were two games that went at least 14 innings on Saturday. This marks the first time in major-league history that there were multiple games that lasted at least 14 innings on consecutive days.> Jun-18-12    WannaBe: More useless no-hitter/perfect-0 information: http://espn.go.com/mlb/blog/_/name/... <jim bartle> will enjoy #1 under the <Bonus> Section, since he raved about that catch. =)) Jun-18-12    Jim Bartle: Clemens was acquitted on all charges. I wonder what this means for him and for baseball. I have to think he'll now be a shoo-in for the Hall of Fame. Or maybe not. Jun-18-12    Phony Benoni: Don't bet on it. Shoeless Joe Jackson was acquitted too. Besides, the charge wasn't steroid use, but lying to Congress. Clemens might be hated, but he's still more popular than Congress. Jun-18-12    Shams: R.A. Dickey is putting the finishing touches on another jewel today-- through seven innings, he has a one-hit shutout with 9 Ks. This after his last outing, a nine-inning one-hitter. Dickey's ERA is at 2.04. I find the knuckleball really interesting, and it's a ton of fun to root for him. I just had to google something that all of you would have known immediately: no knuckleballer has ever won the Cy Young. I'd love to see Dickey be the first. Jun-19-12    WannaBe: A. Hill of Arizona hit for the cycle against Seattle. Jun-19-12    playground player: Hooray! Roger Clemens cleared of charges of lying to Congress! Lying to Congress? Since when is that an offense? Oh, I see--only other Congressmen, and members of the executive branch, are allowed to lie to Congress. So Clemens offended Congress as an amateur trying to horn in on the pros. Kind of like Pelosi taking it upon herself to pitch a game at Fenway Park... Jun-19-12    Phony Benoni: This R. A. Dickey is beginning to scare me. Over his last six starts, he has over 60 strikeouts and about half-a-dozen walks. A knuckleballer with good control must be a sign of the Apocalypse. Jun-19-12    YouRang: Pretty funny basketball video: http://devour.com/video/uncle-drew/ Jun-19-12    WannaBe: As Spike Lee & MJ's old commercial used to say: "Gotta be da shoes, Mars" http://shine.yahoo.com/fashion/adid... Jun-19-12    WannaBe: I want to thank <Phony Benoni> for sharing his wealth with us. NOT! http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sidesho... Jun-19-12    Phony Benoni: Hard to be mad at the guy. After all, he kept the money in the city. Jun-19-12    Shams: Roger Angell on Dickey: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo... Jun-20-12    WannaBe: Joel Peralta of Tampa Bay got caught with foreign substance on his pitching glove. And some rookie got a 50 games suspension for testing positive of PED. Reminds me of a great one-liner, I can't remember who said it, he was also a pitcher caught with foreign substance. "That's not foreign substance, Vaseline is made in the USA" (May not be exact quote). Jun-20-12    WannaBe: Phillies rookie Galvis got the 50 games suspension, my personal favourite, is still (pitcher I can't remember). On national TV, when the umpires came out to confront him, he reached into his back pocket and flung the emory board towards 3rd base. On TV!! Ah, the good ol' days of cheatin'! Jun-20-12    Jim Bartle: The Vaseline comment was by Don Sutton. Jun-20-12    Jim Bartle: Balls flying out of Yankee Stadium today, eight home runs in the 6th inning. NY announcer says, "The outfielders should play leaning against the wall and be ready to run in if there's a shorter fly.' Jun-20-12    playground player: <YouRang> That really *is* a funny basketball video! I just came back from playing hoops today, in the broiling hot gym--I'm glad that guy wasn't on the other team. I get props for being by far the oldest guy on the court--well, at least I'm *really* old! I earned this grey beard! <Esteemed Colleagues> Help me reach the 9,000-hit mark, before the month is over, by visiting my blog, http://leeduigon.com Jun-20-12    Jim Bartle: Basketball seems to be the one American team sport that pro players love to play, even when they're not being paid. They're always in pickup games, which you don't see in football or baseball. With hockey I'm not sure. I like the chatter and the play in that video as well. "White Men Can't Jump" was really good with the on-court chatter as well. Jun-21-12    vonKrolock: ... but there's no hint about where to find that Babson photo... <John G. White> in Cleveland would be a sure guess!? Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 484) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 391 OF 484 ·  Later Kibitzing>		Deep Fritz 13

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