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 392 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jun-21-12    playground player: <Jim Bartle> Little League and its imitators killed pickup baseball. Kids can't conceive of playing baseball without uniforms, sponsors, parents in the stands, an electronic scoreboard, etc. When I was in college, you could always get up a pickup football game at the county park--but not anymore. Jun-21-12    Jim Bartle: All that is true. I was referring to professional players, particularly when they are on strike or locked out. But the "organized" games definitely has had a negative effect, leaving kids to play much less. My friends and I as kids fashioned fields out of cow pastures to play, as schools were too far away. Jun-21-12    Phony Benoni: <vonKrolock> If you're looking for the physical issue with the Babson photo, the White Collection should have it. BUt it won't be easy to find it elsewhere. I have a vague recollection of having seen a group picture of the Babson family somewhere, but can't place it at the moment. Jun-21-12    WannaBe: Just about 3:30 left in the 3rd qtr, I think it is all over for OKC. Jun-21-12    Phony Benoni: Good. Now we've got all the irrelevancies out of the way and can concentrate on what's really important ... at least until NFL Training Camp. Jun-22-12    WannaBe: Summer Olympics and who will win the Doubles Synchronized Floor Exercize Rhythmic Gymnastics with Hoola Hoop?? Jun-22-12    vonKrolock: <Phon> Never mind, the hints are great, thanks again Jun-22-12    Alien Math: <vonKrolock> If find one pictures of, then able same search with picture url | Right-click the image to copy the URL. On images.google.com, click the camera icon, and "Paste image URL". Further search options then. Jun-22-12    Jim Bartle: OK, it finally happened. A broken bat clobbered someone, and it was the home plate umpire, right in the head, in the Cincinnati game. Went down hard, but walked away leaving the game. Jun-22-12    Phony Benoni: http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/news... Thankfully, he doesn't seem to have lost consciousness, but there's surely a concussion there. By the way, here's the game where Steve Yeager got it in the neck: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... One of those accidents you don't dare think about, simply because they aren't preventable. Jun-23-12    vonKrolock: <Alien Math> Sure , provided the <<"service is available in your country">> ... (not always) Jun-23-12    Phony Benoni: A number of remarkbable features in this game: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... The eleven home runs is no longer a record, the Tigers and White Sox having combined for twelve a couple of times since. But how often do you see: (a) a "walk-off" inside-the-park home run; (b) a grand slam home run by a relief pitcher? Jun-23-12    Jim Bartle: Are there statistics on the number of inside-the-park homers in different stadiums from back in 1950? I'll bet there were more on a huge field such as at Yankee Stadium than at most other stadiums. Jun-23-12    playground player: <Jim Bartle> Don't forget Casey Stengel's inside-the-park home run in the 1921 World Series, the first World Series held in the then-new, now-vanished, Yankee Stadium. He was pretty famous for that homer he hit for the Giants, but became even more famous for managing the Yankees and testifying (inimitably) before Congress (anybody got some video of *that*?). Jun-23-12    Phony Benoni: Damon Runyon report on Stengel's inside-the-park home run: <"This is the way old Casey Stengel ran, running his home run home when two were out in the ninth inning and the score was tied and the ball was bounding inside the Yankee yard. “This is the way— “His mouth wide open. “His warped old legs bending beneath him at every stride. “His arms flying back and forth like those of a man swimming with a crawl stroke. “His flanks heaving, his breath whistling, his head far back… “The warped old legs, twisted and bent by many a year of baseball campaigning, just barely held out under Casey Stengel until he reached the plate running his home run home.”> You don't see sports writing like that every day. But good grief, Casey was only 33. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Stengel had another, more conventional game-winning home run in that series: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Jun-25-12    playground player: <Phony Benoni> Yeah, that's great writing, all right. It makes the event described come to life--reading it is almost as good as being there. But to have that kind of writing, you have to have the kind of audience that can appreciate it. The video-game/comic-book generation has no imagination and no feel for the English language. Jun-25-12    Jim Bartle: In general there's a lot less imagination in sportswriting (though there are exceptions) because we actually get to see the events described via TV. Before TV (and in 1921, I believe, before radio broadcasts) the writers had to work a lot harder to describe the action. I do think you hear a lot of excellent radio broadcasting in sports, especially in baseball. Jun-26-12    Phony Benoni: You should have heard Homer complain when they started writing his stuff down instead of relying on memory. "This modern generation has no imagination and no feel for the Ancient Greek language..." That's a joke (I hope!). However, I think that technological innovations do not destroy imagination, but direct it into different paths and channels. If anything, I'd say this generation has too much of it. And who needs the English language when a picture is worth a thousand words and a YouTube clip a thousand pictures? In the future, the only job English majors can find will be writing instruction manuals. Jun-26-12    I play the Fred: <You don't see sports writing like that every day. But good grief, Casey was only 33.> To be fair, 33 was older then than it is now. (And my previous sentence reads like a Yogi-ism) Jun-26-12    Jim Bartle: You could look it up. Jun-26-12    WannaBe: News: Big Ben to be renamed: http://news.yahoo.com/big-ben-renam... Reaction: Not sure if fans in Pittsburgh would like the fact that their starting QB is now named Elizabeth. Jun-26-12    Phony Benoni: The game that broke a remarkable streak, at least for these days: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Rick Langford had completed his previous 22 starts. He would complete his next three before going ten innings to a no decision in his last appearance for the year. That was the season, you might recall that Billy Martin had invested in Tommy John Surgery futures. Oakland's starters completed 94 games. Each of Oakland's five starters pitched over 200 innings and completed at least 10 games. Even the team leader in saves pitched a complete game shutout near the end of the year. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Jun-26-12    Jim Bartle: "That was the season, you might recall that Billy Martin had invested in Tommy John Surgery futures." No kidding. All five of the starters were basically finished two years later. I guess you could say McCatty lasted another year or two, but even he wasn't effective past the age of 29. I remember Sports Illustrated had an article on the team in May or so, and the opening photo was of the bullpen pitchers watching and looking totally bored. Jun-26-12    Jim Bartle: Cleveland vs. Yankees: Did he catch it or not? You'll know what I mean before too long. Spectacular play in any case. Paul O'Neill called it "home cooking. We have 43,000 people here tonight, and six of them helped him make that catch. I bet it's some little league ball which ended up in his glove." Jun-26-12    Jim Bartle: Yankee announcers are having a great time laughing about what a bad call it was, and showing a slo-mo where the umpire calls out before he's anywhere close enough to the stands to see Wise has the ball is in the glove. So a rules question: Runners on base. Player dives into the crowd and makes the catch. The runners can tag up and just keep running? Can there be fan interference? I mean, what if the home team has the bases loaded and the the shortstop dives into the stands and (foolishly) makes the catch? And the fans hold him down while all three runners score? Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 392 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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