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 404 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Aug-06-12    Phony Benoni: Hey Travis, Definitely C. Brewskis are the most important part of a football game, especially if you're watching the Bears. If fact, I can think of only one alternative with a bigger capacity for goodies: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y8m29ZLX5... Aug-06-12    Travis Bickle: Oh yeah Phony you're talking about Yogi & BooBoo. Yogi always says when he's snatching people's picnic baskets, "I'm smarter than the average bear!" ; P Aug-07-12    WannaBe: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/olympi... See Section III (of the link below), I want to see that (rule) enforced. http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_9... Aug-07-12    I play the Fred: <Section III-Time Limit Each free throw attempt shall be made within 10 seconds after the ball has been placed at the disposal of the free-thrower.> That's fine <WB>, but who's out there breaking it? The only guy I can recall coming close was Karl Malone, and that was a maybe/maybe not situation. In Seattle, the fans used to count to ten when he was at the line trying to get that call. Problem was, they would start at <One> rather than <One-thousand-one>, so Malone was usually shooting between nine and ten seconds. I can't think of a guy who exceeds eight seconds today, but I could easily be wrong about that. Aug-07-12    Jim Bartle: The difference between basketball and soccer (football), of course, is that the clock is running when the goalie holds the ball in football but not when a player has the ball for a free throw. It shouldn't matter how long the goalie holds the ball, because the referee can just add the time to the end of the game, as he sort of ends the game when he decides to. That is, unless it's done just to give a rest to the other players on the team. The most hilarious guy for taking time on free throws was a big guy named Chris Dudley, who shot about 40%. He took a long time, then he somehow faked shooting it once as part of his motion before actually shooting. He drew dozens of lane violations. I think he once missed five in a row when there were three lane violations. Aug-07-12    WannaBe: Bring back pigeon shooting, tired of seeing their sheeeet on my car. http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/fa... Aug-07-12    WannaBe: Watch the video, and listen to V. Scully (turn up the volumn =) http://espn.go.com/blog/los-angeles... Aug-07-12    WannaBe: Even more Useless Information Dept. http://espn.go.com/mlb/blog/_/name/... I liked #3 and #3A, here is the link to the box score for #3: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... The info about the Upton brothers is interesting. But! #5 is strickly for our gracious host, <Phony Benoni>, of course. =) Aug-08-12    Phony Benoni: Another point about that Benoit save: they had a no-hitter going into the ninth. Aug-08-12    Jim Bartle: "We have all this technology and they don't use it because they say it would delay the game. Well, what was that we just saw?" Aw, what's Scully know about baseball? At least wait until you've seen a few games, Vin! On the play, that's about the closest catch/no catch I've ever seen. Aug-08-12    Travis Bickle: Hey Phony I was sitting in Lake Shore Drive traffic and my mind started to wander, and then it dawned on me, you could get a Lions Costume to wear to the lion games! I found these on Ebay and their relatively cheap! http://i1028.photobucket.com/albums... P.S. You may want to get a suit for your pal Jim Bartle. Check out below. http://www.caufields.com/productima... Aug-08-12    Jim Bartle: What is that, Travis? Seriously. For me, better is this: http://www.google.com.pe/imgres?um=... Aug-08-12    Travis Bickle: <Jim Bartle> Good thinking Jim! But I was thinking more along the lines of what if Phony really got into the game and started talking some major trash to the Bears players. You could use your Scarecrow mask to try and scare away Urlacher or Lance Briggs from blasting 'Ol Phony in the bleachers with a forearm! LOL! P.S. But alas Scarecrows only scare birds such as Seahawks, Falcons and Eagles. ; P Aug-08-12    Travis Bickle: Phony here's a nice gift you could send Wannabe! If Da Wabbit is ever in Detroit you guys could go together to the game in style. Plus that axe may fight off a couple of Bears LOL!! http://www.giftcollector.com/media/... P.S. The only problem is that Wannabe likes his libations and that might rust him up pretty good. ; P Aug-08-12    WannaBe: Don't think I'd look good in tin. =)) Aug-08-12    Jim Bartle: Travis: Sorry, didn't recognize it as a scarecrow, my eyes went right to the rope. Aug-08-12    Phony Benoni: <Travis> No, if it's a football game I'd want the metal suit for somebody a bit bigger. Like say Ton Timman. Aug-08-12    Jim Bartle: Watched US vs. Australia Olympic basketball, pretty dull really. Unless it was on the break, the US just threw up threes most time down with no ball movement. 46 threes in 40 minutes. Seemed to me they did a lot of missing, until the fourth quarter, but they made 19, a good percentage. Aug-08-12    WannaBe: While watching the SF-StL game, this came up on the TV screen: Yogi's wife: "You were born in St. Louis, but played and managed in New York. If you should go before me, where would you like to be buried?" Yogi: "Surprise me!" Aug-08-12    Jim Bartle: Reminds me of columnist Jim Murray's comment when Casey Stengel died: "God is getting an earful tonight." Aug-08-12    Phony Benoni: Finally watched the blinkin' Vin Scully highlight. Definitely looked like the ball bounced on the turf to me. But I have to agree with him that replays are quicker than rhubarbs. On the other hand, they're not nearly so much fun. Aug-08-12    Jim Bartle: I thought he caught it! Aug-08-12    WannaBe: I thought he did not, because of the bounce, then on replay with close-up shots, the ball bounced in the webbing of the glove. <JB> You are right, that is the closest catch/no catch call. <Phony Benoni>, this is for you: http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/fa... Aug-08-12    Jim Bartle: What's that link, a group photo of Matt Millen's draft picks? Aug-09-12    WannaBe: Ba-da-bam!! Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 404 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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