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 382 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> May-19-12    Phony Benoni: Here's the first known double switch in major league baseball. No hanky-panky, and the only swinging was by the Highlanders: http://baseballhistoryblog.com/503/... The idea itself dates back to Genesis, chapter 29: see Laban's manuevering with Rachel, Leah, and Jacob. May-19-12    WannaBe: Had a great time at Evans Field at Berkeley's Campus, a co-worker went with me (he got his advanced degree there) and we had a blast. We sat in front of these two guys, the elder gentlemen threw out the first pitch, and he was instrumental in fund-raising last year to save Cal's baseball program. And of course, it is still an on-going thing, since the state is 16 Billion, that's right kids, billion dollars in the red; for this year's budget! (You can read some of the prelim. news from this link: http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/cal-r...) It was such a joy, he played on Cal's varsity in the '60s, if I remember the announcer correctly, and he can still get that ball over the plate. (Not bad for a southpaw. =) We just had the greatest conversation, even though I had my UCLA cap and tank-top on. Learned, that Cal spend 1.5 million annually on the baseball program. Discussed the Preakness, Giants/A's baseball, the current state/status of college baseball and just about everything under the sun. May-19-12    WannaBe: Sumth'n never change. http://espn.go.com/college-football... May-19-12    Phony Benoni: When I first saw the headline in the middle of this page: http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%... I thought it referred to a tennis player who specialized in the lob. Not quite. May-20-12    WannaBe: When I first saw <Phony Benoni> posting those link (on my forum, no less) I wondered why he was interested in Futons. May-20-12    Jim Bartle: This caught my eye in that old newspaper: "Woman Vaults 6 ft. 1 in." May-21-12    WannaBe: I see the move 'Major League IV' in the makings... http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7... May-21-12    Phony Benoni: Oh. I would have expected Major League IV to have a medical theme. May-21-12    WannaBe: Will today be Laker's last game of the season? May-21-12    Phony Benoni: I certainly hope so, since Mr. Bryant may finally stop complaining. I'm getting tired of Kobe beef. May-21-12    WannaBe: The 2 announcers on ESPN Radio are idiots... And Dr. Jack Ramsey is one of them. May-21-12    Phony Benoni: It's good to know we also had superstar prima donnas a century ago. Though why the manager wanted to bench a .327 hitter is beyond me. http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%... May-21-12    WannaBe: I, personally like the article on Capa, left to that Garden City Golf Team article. May-22-12    WannaBe: Not lookin' good for the LA Five, who would have thunk, that the Kings would be playing while the BBall teams are done? May-22-12    keypusher: Can one of you savants explain why this is a balk (you have to wait a little while)? http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story... May-22-12    keypusher: <Jim Bartle: Never gonna happen again, not anything like it. Never be a Kareem-Magic-Worthy quality team again either. You're never going to see a team with three legitimate stars again, much less four, unless one is a rookie or second-year guy.> By the way, I noticed the Lakers took Magic with the #1 overall pick in 1979 and Worthy with the #1 overall pick in 1982. How the hell did that happen? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o... May-22-12    chancho: <keypusher> From Wiki: <In the NBA draft, Worthy was chosen first overall by the Los Angeles Lakers. Shrewd and opportunistic trade moves made by the Lakers front office, combined with a coin flip victory against the then-San Diego Clippers the year before provided them with the first overall pick, the year after winning the NBA Championship.> May-22-12    Jim Bartle: Keypusher: The Lakers got those #1 picks because weaker teams traded for short-term gains, trading future #1 picks for LA players who were good but not great. LA got the 1979 #1 pick basically for trading Gail Goodrich to New Orleans in 1976, where they thought he'd be dynamite playing beside Maravich. New Orleans continued to be bad, and they earned the #1 pick for '79, which belonged to the Lakers. LA got the 1982 #1 pick by trading for it in 1980, picking it up from Cleveland in 1980, for a journeyman forward, Don Ford. I'm sure in both cases the other team never imagined the draft pick would turn out to be the #1 overall pick, but still they were foolish. The Lakers looked long-term, and with a little luck, came out big winners. By the way, if the Lakers had lost that coin flip with San Diego, they still could have picked Dominique Wilkins or Terry Cummings instead of Worthy. Who know how well they would have fit in, especially whether Wilkins would have bought into the Lakers system rather than become a high-flying dunking act. May-22-12    WannaBe: Hey, she's only married to someone 32 years her senior, and taking a 17-years old to the prom, as she promised. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highs... May-22-12    keypusher: <Jim Bartle and chancho> Thanks and wow. So all we need for a new Jabbar-Johnson-Worthy assemblage are some dumb GMs and a couple of lucky coin flips, right? There are always a few of the former around... May-22-12    WannaBe: Hey, I'll trade you Vlade Divac for this young-untested kid, named Kobe. Deal?! May-22-12    Jim Bartle: Divacs for the draft rights to Kobe looks ridiculous, of course. But in 1996 everyone was still very wary of drafting high school kids even with the budding success of Garnett the year before. Look at the list of non-entities drafted in the five or six picks before Kobe that year, it's amazing. May-22-12    Phony Benoni: <keypusher> If I understood the balk rule, I would be posting on the Rogoff page. May-22-12    Jim Bartle: Usually when looking at draft years later, you see pretty mediocre players taken near the top, and only two to four really good players in the entire first round. But in 1996, there were 10 first-rate players among the first 17 taken: Iverson, Camby, Abdur-Rahim, Marbury (good for a while, at least), Ray Allen, Antoine Walker, Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Stojakovic, and Jermaine O'Neal. May-22-12    keypusher: <Phony Benoni: <keypusher> If I understood the balk rule, I would be posting on the Rogoff page.> Hmm, sounds like a promising screen. I guess Jim and OCF would have the page to themselves. 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