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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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   Phony Benoni has kibitzed 18634 times to chessgames [more...]

   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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Jun-03-12		tpstar: <Now I have twins, 13-year-old boys> Congratulations! <neither has any interest in following sports teams at all> Maybe they are quite sensible. =) 1) Teach them chess! 2) Twin boys should be a natural for tennis, both singles (playing each other) and doubles. 3) Send them here so <diceman> can tell them all about the ghetto.

Jun-03-12		Jim Bartle: I have tried with chess, tpstar, but computer games (violent ones) are their preference. Tennis is certainly a possibility, since I played seriously for many years. But there are no public courts near their home, and I'm not in a position to join a club. Maybe hit against a wall. We do hit golf balls around parks sometimes.

Jun-04-12		playground player: <Jim Bartle> We don't know your circumstances, except for the little you've told us, so it's hard for any of us to give you good advice--even though we want to. We didn't have violent video games when I was growing up: back in the Bronze Age, the culture was a lot cleaner. But I can't believe it's good for kids to spend a lot of time on violent video games, and it's be nice if you could divert their interest into something more wholesome. If it was me at 13 years old, and my dad was a working archeologist, wild horses couldn't have dragged me from his side. Then again, it's human nature to take one's own parents for granted. Are your boys interested in the past? If not, what, besides violent video games, are they interested in?

Jun-04-12		WannaBe: I was pretty traumatized watching Pac-man gobbling up those ghosts; and those space ships invading Earth, I had shoot, and shoot, but yet they keeping coming down, lower and lower, and lower... Scarred me for life.

Jun-04-12		Jim Bartle: Playground player: Well, the two boys are very different. One wants to get out and do things, the other wants to stay on the computer and little else. Unfortunately the first one has some health issues. The games they play are battles but not real bloody. The main attraction seems to be they're playing against (and with) other players from around the world. I need to get them back into the mountains again, which means at least a few days away from home (no interesting mountains near their house). A big problem is that summer vacation here is Christmas till March, summertime on the coast. Exactly when it's wet and rainy up in the mountains. In the Andes the dry season is May through September, and it's tough to find the time to go then, unless I take the kids out of school. I'm not an archaeologist, by the way, though I've worked with good ones. I'm an editor/publisher, largely on natural areas, and have worked a lot on conservation issues.

Jun-05-12		Phony Benoni: Get the feeling it's going to be the West's year in the Finals?

Jun-05-12		chancho: That game 5 in the Western Conference finals was epic. OKC looked like it had the game easily won, when the Spurs made the huge run to close to within two. The Harden three pointer was the dagger that ended any chances for the Spurs. Heck of a game.

Jun-05-12		Phony Benoni: Perhaps the most unexpected no-hitter of all time: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... The Rockies had a team batting average of .343 at Coors Field that year. (Unfortunately, they only hit .228 on the road, for an overall average of .287.) Nomo would pitch another no-hitter in 2001 after bouncing around with several teams, including the Mets.

Jun-05-12		Jim Bartle: Right, in the days before they kept the balls in the humidor at Coors Field. That team had to have had one of the biggest home/away differences ever. 55-26 at home, 28-53 away. 658 runs at home (more than 8 a game), 303 away (less than 4).

Jun-05-12		playground player: <Jim Bartle> Sorry--had you mistaken for Indiana Jones. But yours still sounds like an interesting career. My father had a lot of tricks for spending time with his kids, without making it look like he was going out of his way to do it. He would take us with him on the most mundane errands (won't work for 13-year-olds), and let us watch, and mess around with tools, while he repaired radios (a hobby) and did all sorts of other handy things. Unfortunately, by the time adolescence set it, school had taught me that the most important people in the world, totally overshadowing my family, were my age-group peers. I grew apart from my father and mother. The bad news is that it took me many years to grow close to them again. The good news is that I did, finally--as close as I had ever been in all my life. The seeds my father planted in my heart when I was little finally germinated, grew, and yielded a good crop of love... just when he most needed it.

Jun-05-12		hms123: <Jim Bartle> When we take our 10-year-old granddaughter on vacation, we hand her an inexpensive point-and-shoot camera and tell her to have at it. Then each night we sit around and edit the pictures with her help. When we get home, we edit some more (again with her help) and put together an album (hard copy) of the trip. It's great fun for all of us and doesn't take a lot of skill.

Jun-05-12		Jim Bartle: Playground player: I'm no Indiana Jones, but I've explored around mountains for archaeological sites with a friend who could pass for Jones. He's been through all sorts of adventures, just a few with me, we had great times finding small sites among the mountains. Unfortunately I wasn't with him (couldn't go) when he found frozen Inca mummies on the summits of Andean volcanos. http://www.google.com.pe/imgres?hl=...

Jun-06-12		chancho: Who would have imagined the Celts winning game 5 at Miami?

Jun-06-12		Jim Bartle: Only watched fourth quarter, but I can't believe Miami was so slow getting back on defense, even after making baskets. Boston must have scored on four layups just by rushing the ball upcourt while the Heat (the Heats?) sauntered back.

Jun-06-12		Jim Bartle: Oh, and Kevin Garnett: good player.

Jun-06-12		playground player: <Jim Bartle> Frozen Inca mummies... now there's something I would very much <not> like to find.

Jun-06-12		Phony Benoni: <playground player> You'd prefer unfrozen Inca mummies?

Jun-06-12		Jim Bartle: Scientifically extremely important, especially to my friend's theories. The discovery was ranked as one of the greatest in archaeology of the second half of the 20th century. He's found more on very high summits in Argentina and Chile.

Jun-06-12		playground player: I do appreciate the enormous scientific value of those finds. It's just that I have this deep-seated aversion to human sacrifice, especially when the victim is a child. The custom is very severely condemned in the Old Testament.

Jun-06-12		Phony Benoni: Maybe this picture could go on my player page: http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers... On the other hand, that's not actually me. In the first place, I'm not an optimist. Secondly, the middle initial is wrong. Thirdly, I wasn't a senior in 1968. Finally, if I had won a $25 savings bond in 1968, do you think I'd still be working for a living today?

Jun-06-12		The Big Lebowski: <chancho> Maybe The Celtics are a team of Destiny!?

Jun-06-12		chancho: <The Big Lebowski:<chancho> Maybe The Celtics are a team of Destiny!? > I doubt it. I just saw the Thunder finish off the Spurs. OKC has one high octane offense. Durant is awesome.

Jun-06-12		WannaBe: Very funny/tongue in cheek article, and the CSI box-score, Koufax. "Two and two to Kuhn..." http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/page... The (only?) pitcher to lose a one-hitter. =))

Jun-07-12		WannaBe: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas... Let's just hope, that he doesn't do the 'Dance' after each victory. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTRu... (57th second and on-on-pn-on-on)

Jun-07-12		Phony Benoni: It wasn't so much about Hendley losing the one-hitter as what the other pitcher did: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Here a team loses a no-hitter: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... This is even a crazier example, but it's not technically a no-hitter because the pitcher only went eight innings: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Another famous lost one-hitter: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Here's another example that came to mind: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/...

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