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 405 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Aug-10-12    Tal7777777: Do you even play the Benoni? Aug-10-12    Jim Bartle: Dubious. That's why he calls himself a phony. Aug-10-12    Phony Benoni: Well, as a matter of fact: J Patty vs D Moody, 1988 Aug-11-12    Phony Benoni: If Miguel Cabrera needs a little loose change once the baseball season is over, I think the Pistons could use some help: http://www.totalprosports.com/2012/... Aug-11-12    perfidious: Cabrera might get to lose a few pounds lumbering (almost typed running) up and down the court. That would be similar to Showtime in the old days: four Lakers on the fast break, trailed by Jabbar. Aug-11-12    Jim Bartle: Wasn't Jabbar a pretty good runner until his last four or five years? Certainly when Magic first joined the team Kareem was down there on the fast break, at least as a trailer. Aug-11-12    perfidious: <Jim> Believe he was, but my strongest memories are of ca 1984-85 finals, by which time he let his mates do their worst and eventually got back. By 1985, he was 38 though, so it's understandable. Aug-11-12    perfidious: When you thought a baseball team couldn't get historically putrid in this day and age, here come Houston Astros, now 4-34 in their last 38 games. http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/d...-(losing)-history Aug-11-12    Tal7777777: I see... Aug-11-12    Jim Bartle: Unfortunately for Kareem, the NBA only became real popular on TV in the mid-80s, just as Kareem was fading and Magic, Bird and Jordan ruled. His brilliant play in the 70s went largely unseen, though the numbers are in the record book. Aug-11-12    Travis Bickle: Dr Benoni, when I complemented you on your game <J Patty vs D Moody, 1988>, it was sincere. My joke about the Brando comment wasn't intended as an insult. Aug-11-12    perfidious: <Jim> True enough; when I watched the 1980 finals, they were tape-delayed in at least some instances. Had Magic and Bird not come along in 1979, the league might have well have receded into a backwater. Aug-11-12    Jim Bartle: I would have thought the tremendous injection of talent into the NBA with the addition of the four ABA teams plus the rest of the ABA players would have increased interest, plus the wonderful teamwork of Walton and the Trailblazers, but it really took the Bird-Magic rivalry to grab the public. Aug-11-12    Phony Benoni: <Travis> No problem; I took the compliment as sincere and the Brando comment as a joke. If I don't respond, it's usually because I just can't think of anything appropriate to say. Small talk has never been my strength. Aug-11-12    perfidious: <Jim> From time to time, I've seen the opinion expressed that Michael Jordan was responsible for rejuvenating the NBA. For my money, he was the greatest to ever lace up a pair, but that overshoots the mark. Aug-11-12    Jim Bartle: I was out of the country most of that time, but I think the popularity had picked up a lot with the LA-Philadelphia-Boston rivalry of the early 80s, each team with megastars. Jordan just made it bigger, kept it going. Remember that the finals from 86 through 90 were big deals, even without Jordan. (I thought the Bad Boy Pistons were a pretty big story.) Aug-11-12    OhioChessFan: It was really Bird/Magic who rejuvenated the NBA and Jordan amped it up even more. Aug-11-12    Jim Bartle: I'm not the best judge. I was an absolute NBA fanatic from the time the Warriors arried in SF with Wilt, well into the 90s. Aug-12-12    whiteshark: Double <DIRP> alert! A Blees vs I Rogers, 1991 Aug-12-12    Phony Benoni: <whiteshark> Thanks! Aug-15-12    WannaBe: Perfect-o for Seattle (King Felix). Aug-15-12    Jim Bartle: And 1-0, a close game. So, 15 perfect games from 1904 to 2008, now 6 from 2009 to 2012. Aug-15-12    WannaBe: Pitchers are juiced. =)) Aug-15-12    WannaBe: Tampa Bay have been no-hit 4 times in the last 4 season, 3 of them perfect-o's... Aug-15-12    Jim Bartle: An interesting play and need for rule interpretation in the Boston-Baltimore game. A reliever for the O's came in, and as many do, throws from the stretch even without anyone on base. So with two strikes he throws to Adrian Gonzalez without the complete stop in the stretch. Two strikes, and Gonzalez has to swing and grounds out. Gonzalez and Valentine got thrown out for arguing it was illegal, but announcer Jim Palmer said it was legal, as did of course the umps. Seems obvious to me, as the point of the complete stop is for the benefit of baserunners. Maybe I and the other Jim are wrong, but as I saw it, it was just a different kind of windup. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 405 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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