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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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Sep-17-12		perfidious: <Jim> Funny-I was at that game and forgot about Baylor dropping the foul pop!

Sep-17-12		playground player: <perfidious> So did Reyes ask to keep the ball?

Sep-17-12		perfidious: <pgp> No idea, but he seemed reluctant to let go of it during the play!

Sep-17-12		Phony Benoni: I was going to ask if they counted Marv Throneberry dropping his birthday cake, but that story is apparently apocryphal. Darn. What does seem to be true is the day he hit a triple, but got called out on appeal for missing first base. When Stengel came out to argue, he was supposedly told "Don't bother, Casey. He missed second too." Which led to two remarkable situations. (1) Throneberry gets two RBIs on an out to first. (2) When the next hitter (Charlie Neal) hit a home run, Stengel followed him around on the basepaths pointing to each base in turn. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/...

Sep-17-12		Jim Bartle: Great story. I remember once an American League pitcher hit a double in an interleague game, and the third base coach went out to talk to him, pointed to third base, and made running gestures. That Mets lineup actually has several pretty good players, even one Hall of Famer (Ashburn). Unfortunately all of them were over the hill.

Sep-17-12		perfidious: <Phony Benoni> Never heard the first one, but the second is priceless.

Sep-18-12		crawfb5: I've been going through Gordon's big collection of Reshevsky games. He has three games from the 1931 Tulsa tournament not in the database: Rd 1 10/5/31: Reshevsky-Wilber 1-0 Rd 2 10/6/31: Reshevsky-Mlotkowski 1-0 Rd 7 10/10/31: Barnes-Reshevsky 1/2 I can submit them in the next few days, assuming I can remember. :-)

Sep-18-12		WannaBe: <crawfb5> I am going to blow the whistle on you for discussing chess. 15 yards, and an automatic first DOWN!!

Sep-18-12		Jim Bartle: Watching A's-Detroit (and I've watched the Tigers quite a few times), and all the worry that Cabrera couldn't handle third base seems to have been unnecessary. All I see him doing is making good plays, tough plays.

Sep-18-12		WannaBe: Them tigers are putting on a world of hurt on the A's...

Sep-18-12		Phony Benoni: <JB> Cabrera has definitely improved at third base as the season went on. Still no Ron Santo, but if he can get to the ball he'll field it and make a good trhow. Offensively, his 40 home runs are second to Josh Hamilton's 42, while he leads with 129 RBIs (six tonight) and a .332 average. The Real, Honest to Goodness Triple Crown is not out of the question, especially since he is on a power streak: I think he's homered in five straight games now. The Tigers are definitely letting out a little frustration tonight. The last couple of weeks have not been good to them, and there is a very real chance they won't make the playoffs--which will probably cost Cabrera the MVP, Triple Crown or no Triple Crown.

Sep-18-12		WannaBe: Great article. http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8...

Sep-19-12		Phony Benoni: I did some pitching in church league slow pitch softball. I was reasonably effective as long as I kept the ball low and inside. We had a really good third baseman, even if he never spoke to me. One day, the ball went down the middle of the plate, and the batter hit it right up the middle. My middle. And remember, this is church league; we didn't use protective gear. I managed to throw the runner out, then collapsed and displayed my lunch. They took me out of the game, and the relief pitcher stopped talking to me as well. I went home, and when I saw the imprint of the ball on my stomach decided it was about time to end my athletic career.

Sep-19-12		Travis Bickle: I remember when Ron Santo got beaned right in the face while hitting against The Mets at Wrigley. At that time there was seating in centerfield after Santo got his right cheek fractured they went to that green hitting backdrop and removed seating so hitters could pick up the ball quicker. To me getting hit in the head while batting is much tougher to comeback from than getting hit while pitching. Batting you see every pitch coming in at you as opposed to pitching you sometimes see nothing and your concentrating on the pitch you're throwing and getting the batter out. Also pitchers throw inside to keep a hitter honest. After getting hit in the head it really is a tough psychological task standing in there and not throwing off your timing. When Ron Cey got beaned during a world series when he was trying to get ready to comeback and play he had long walks in the outfield to try to get his mind right.

Sep-19-12		Jim Bartle: Well, the biggest difference is that batters wear helmets but pitchers don't.

Sep-19-12		Travis Bickle: <Jim Bartle> Yes that's true but according to that article Wannabe posted pitchers are getting hit in the face where a helmet would do no good.

Sep-19-12		Jim Bartle: That's really bad. Think what would happen if the major leagues permitted metal bats. But my thought went the other way. When a batter gets beaned these days, he almost always gets hit on the helmet. He's protected. Obviously a pitch hitting a guy directly in the face would be disastrous.

Sep-19-12		WannaBe: One possible solution, is to have the pitchers wear similiar masks to catchers/hockey goalies/field hockey player. How you like them apples?

Sep-19-12		Jim Bartle: Sounds awful.

Sep-19-12		WannaBe: Vince Young have declared, that he is broke. In 2006, he signed a 26 million guaranteed contract.

Sep-19-12		Travis Bickle: The pitcher could wear a lightweight fiber glass mask like Jason and scare the hell out of the batters before he threw the ball. ; P http://assets2.ignimgs.com/2008/10/... Here's Jason throwing a mean cutter. LOL! http://www.heavenlyswords.com/image...

Sep-19-12		crawfb5: <PB> I submitted the Tulsa 1931 games. Here they are in case you want to do anything with them while they're in the pipeline. I assumed "Barnes" was <George Samuel Barnes> based on his other games. If you know differently, that can be fixed down the road. Expect periodic additions from other early Opens as I work through Gordon's book. [Event "Western Championship"] [Site "Tulsa, OK"] [Date "1931.10.05"] [Round "1"] [White "Reshevsky, Samuel"] [Black "Wilber"] [Result "1-0"] 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Bg4 3.Bg2 Bxf3 4.Bxf3 e5 5.d3 c6 6.e4 d4 7.O-O Nf6 8.Bg2 Be7 9.f4 Nbd7 10.a4 Bd6 11.Na3 exf4 12.Nc4 Bc7 13.Bxf4 Bxf4 14.Rxf4 Nb6 15.e5 Ng8 16.Nd6+ Kd7 17.Rxf7+ Ne7 18.Qg4+ Kc7 19.Qxg7 1-0 [Event "Western Championship"] [Site "Tulsa, OK"] [Date "1931.10.06"] [Round "2"] [White "Reshevsky, Samuel"] [Black "Mlotkowski, Stasch"] [Result "1-0"] 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Bf5 3.Bg2 c6 4.b3 Nd7 5.Bb2 e6 6.O-O Qc7 7.d3 Bg6 8.Nbd2 Ngf6 9.Qe1 Bb4 10.a3 Ba5 11.b4 Bb6 12.c4 Qd8 13.e4 O-O 14.Nh4 dxe4 15.Nxg6 hxg6 16.dxe4 e5 17.c5 Bc7 18.Rc1 Qe7 19.Qe3 Rfd8 20.Bh3 Nf8 21.Nc4 N6h7 22.a4 Ng5 23.Bg4 f6 24.Rfd1 Nge6 25.a5 a6 26.Rxd8 Rxd8 27.Rd1 Kf7 28.Rxd8 Qxd8 29.Qd2 Qxd2 30.Nxd2 Ke7 31.h4 Bb8 32.Nc4 Nd7 33.Kf1 Bc7 34.Ne3 Kf7 35.Ke2 Ndf8 36.Kd3 Ke7 37.Bc1 Bb8 38.Ng2 Bc7 39.Ne3 Bb8 40.h5 gxh5 41.Bxh5 g6 42.Bg4 Bc7 43.Ng2 Nd7 44.Be3 Bb8 45.Nh4 g5 46.Nf5+ Kf7 47.Bd1 Ke8 48. Ke2 Kd8 49.Kf3 Nc7 50.Bb3 Nb5 51.Ke2 Bc7 52.Kd3 Nf8 53.Bc1 Kd7 54.Bb2 Ne6 55.Bd1 Nf8 56.Bg4 Ke8 57.Nh6 Nh7 58.Ke3 Ke7 59.Bh5 Kd7 60.Kf3 Nf8 61.Kg4 Ke6 62.Bf7+ Ke7 63.Bb3 Nh7 64.Kf5 Bd8 65.Ng8+ Ke8 66.Kg6 Nf8+ 67.Kg7 Nd7 68.Bf7# 1-0 [Event "Western Championship"] [Site "Tulsa, OK"] [Date "1931.10.10"] [Round "7"] [White "Barnes, George Samuel"] [Black "Reshevsky, Samuel"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.Nf3 e6 7.c3 Nf6 8.Bd3 Nbd7 9.O-O Bd6 10.Re1 Qc7 11.Qe2 O-O-O 12.Be3 Rhe8 13.Rad1 Nb6 14.Bxg6 hxg6 15.c4 Nbd7 16.Bg5 Bf4 17.Ne4 Bxg5 18.Nexg5 Nb6 19.Ne5 Re7 20.b3 Ne8 21.Nexf7 Rxf7 22.Qxe6+ Rfd7 23.Nf7 Kb8 24.Nxd8 Rxd8 25.Qxg6 Nf6 26.Qg3 Qxg3 27.hxg3 Nc8 28.f3 Kc7 29.g4 Nh7 30.Re5 Nf6 31.Kf2 Rd7 32.Kg3 Nd6 33. f4 b5 34.g5 Nfe4+ 35.Kf3 Nc3 36.Rc1 Nxa2 37.Ra1 Nb4 38.Rxa7+ Nb7 39.cxb5 Kb6 40.bxc6 Nxc6 41.Rxb7+ Kxb7 42.Re4 Nxd4+ 43.Kg4 g6 44.Kg3 Nf5+ 45.Kh2 Rd2 46.Re6 1/2-1/2

Sep-19-12		Jim Bartle: "Vince Young have declared, that he is broke. In 2006, he signed a 26 million guaranteed contract." You hear about things like that every so often. I think Jack Clark and Jose Canseco went bankrupt as well. Plus of course rapper MC Hammer (the ex-A's ballboy). I just don't understand how it's possible, unless they have money managers who just steal from them or they get (extra) greedy and make risky investments that don't pan out.

Sep-19-12		WannaBe: Dan Marino lost a big chunk of change in that CGI company that went belly up. http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dis...

Sep-19-12		perfidious: <Jim> Here's a man who could tell us a thing or three about the disastrous consequences of being hit in the face if he were still alive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_C...

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