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 223 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Nov-09-10    technical draw: I just noticed your birthday too. But I also noticed the year. One more year, buddy, and it's the BIG SIX-O...Have a happy one. Nov-09-10    Open Defence: Happy Birthday!!! Nov-09-10    Travis Bickle: Happy Birthday Dr Benoni!!! Nov-09-10    Jim Bartle: While reading some Bill James, I wondered if Darrell Evans was the only player to be a regular with both San Francisco and Detroit. He played well for both teams, usually often second for the Giants because he walked so much. James called him the most underrated player ever. Nov-09-10    Phony Benoni: <JB> Baseball-reference.com has a page that can answer questions like this. http://www.baseball-reference.com/f... WARNING: It can be addictive. Here's all the players who played for both the SF Giants and Tigers: http://www.baseball-reference.com/f... Harvey Kuenn, Tito Fuentes and Edgar Renteria stand out as regular players on both, though Evans is surely at the top of the list. Nov-09-10    Jim Bartle: Oh, man, Harvey Kuenn! How could I miss that one? Nov-10-10    playground player: <Jim Bartle> Appreciating Darrell Evans is one of the signs of the true baseball connoisseur. Nov-10-10    Jim Bartle: I think Jack Clark, another player with SF in the same era, was another really outstanding player for a number of years, though he faded badly toward the end. He got walked so often that his power totals were never all that high. In one year with St. Louis he had more walks than hits. Clark used to frustrate Whitey Herzon no end. Apparently Clark thought he was such a good fastball hitter that no pitcher would throw him one (for a strike). So he looked for curves and sliders, and ended up letting a lot of fastballs go which he could have hit hard. Clark hit thhe longest home run I ever saw in a game. It was an exhibition vs. Stanford in 1983, at Stanford's Sunken Diamond. He hit a pitch over the 400-ft. center field wall, over the 10-ft. wall atop a 15-ft. high hill 40 ft. farther, over a service road, over a set of temporary bleachers and into the middle of an intramural soccer game. Unbelievable. At that point he hadn't hit a homer in the NL for two weeks. Nov-10-10    Travis Bickle: Breaking news Phony and all you sportsfans. Jon Miller & Joe Morgan get the axe at ESPN for Sunday Night baseball. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b... Nov-11-10    keypusher: <Travis Bickle: Breaking news Phony and all you sportsfans. Jon Miller & Joe Morgan get the axe at ESPN for Sunday Night baseball. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b...; And the sports world is shaken by the news that a hanging Chad in Miami has dropped... Nov-11-10    Phony Benoni: <keypusher> Afraid the link is kaput. Nov-11-10    keypusher: <Phony Benoni: <keypusher> Afraid the link is kaput.> Sorry, that was just copied from Travis' link on Morgan. I didn't think anyone actually cared enough about Chad and Chad to do a link. Here's one. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/... They're both good guys, I think. If you could graft Pennington's head onto Henne's body, you'd have a great quarterback. Nov-11-10    Jim Bartle: Meanwhile the 49ers look at their #1 overall draft choice Alex Smith sitting on the bench, while local college star Aaron Rodgers, the one they passed over, lights it up for Green Bay. What a terrible choice. Nov-12-10    Phony Benoni: And the Lions #1 overall pick, Matthew Stafford, is probably out for the season with yet another shoulder injury. He seems to separate a shoulder everytime the wind shifts. Too bad. The kid has shown he can play, but he can't play! Nov-12-10    Jim Bartle: Skowron was not pleased to be pinch hit for in the first inning with two on (two future Hall of Famers): http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... As you noted on that other page, Mike McCormick wasn't on the All-Star team in 1967, the year he won the Cy Young (and the first year there was one for each league). And the NL starter in that game was Juan Marichal, who was hurt later and had his only relatively poor year between 63 and 70. Marichal won 93 games in four years from 63 to 66, with an ERA below 2.50 every year, and never won a Cy Young (nor deserved one). Yet McCormack got one for his only really good year. He had better timing. Nov-12-10    Phony Benoni: At least Skowron's replacement got a hit. Bob Cerv's didn't. But I guess Stengel had a little more latitude to make such moves, since his teams generally carried fewer pitchers and more position players than today. Nov-12-10    Jim Bartle: Didn't notice Cerv. Stengel really, really believed in the platoon advantage, I guess. I got the Skowron thing fro Bill James' book on managers. There's a pretty funny bit from Bill Veeck and the Browns. On August 24, 1951, he had 1000 fans with placards saying bunt, pinch hit, replace pitcher, etc. "manage" the team." They picked the starting lineup as well. The real manager, Zack Taylor, sat in a rocking chair near the dugout, out of uniform and reading a newspaper. And the Browns won: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Nov-12-10    Phony Benoni: 1951 was a year Zack Taylor probably would have liked to forget. First the fans managing, then the Eddie Gaedel thing. He was probably happy to get fired at the end of the year. Nov-13-10    Phony Benoni: "Drop down and give me 573!" http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo... Nov-14-10    Phony Benoni: Finally found a clip of Bo Jackson climbing the wall after making a catch. Still don't believe it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs-1... Mostly football, though. Nov-14-10    Travis Bickle: Attention Dr Benoni, A.G. Argent, especially Jim Bartle & all you sportsfans, BEARS 27 vikings 13!! Here's a song all you sports fans can enjoy! ; P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG8O... Nov-14-10    Travis Bickle: Here's a special tribute song for Bret Favre the great old man. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9W... Nov-14-10    Phony Benoni: Travis, are you implying that Brett is a showboatter? On second thought, don't answer that. Nov-14-10    Travis Bickle: Nah but's he's like an old pair of shoes. Throw em away and get another pair! ; P Nov-14-10    Jim Bartle: Woulda coulda shoulda. Bo Jackson obviously had the talent, and I guess he produced in the NFL for a few years before he got hurt. But for all the highlights he really never looked like a great baseball player: lifetime .250 average, 141 homers, 300 runs, 415 RBIs in what would be the equivalent of five full seasons. Good but not great. I see he grounded into 40 double plays in his career. I bet those were forty balls hit very hard directly to fielders. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 223 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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