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 428 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-08-12    Travis Bickle: Hey Phony you get The Bears game on free TV over there in Detroit? My set went out and I don't know what the result was. Your Pal, Travis Oct-08-12    Phony Benoni: Hey, <Travis>, the Bears game was halted at halftime with the score 3-3, due to incompetence. The second half was played with with replacement players, referees, and especially scorekeepers. That's how Chicago wound up winning 41-3. But the Bears are looking pretty good at the moment. Oct-08-12    OhioChessFan: <But the Bears are looking pretty good at the moment.> As good as a team with Jay Cutler at QB can look, anyway. Oct-08-12    Travis Bickle: Dr Benoni, your Tigers are looking really good also! Oct-08-12    Travis Bickle: <OhioChessFan> Your just a frustrated Cleveland Browns fan. ; P Even The Bengals lost yesterday lol! P.S. Elvis, I have an autographed photo of this moment when the President gave me The Medal of Honor! http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9GHLPOr8W... Oct-08-12    OhioChessFan: I root for the Cincinnati teams. Bengals were awful yesterday, but the Reds are rocking. Oct-08-12    OhioChessFan: Here's when I got my Medal of Honor: http://www.comicbookbrain.com/_imag... Oct-08-12    WannaBe: The Reds just scored, again!! Oct-08-12    Travis Bickle: <OhioChessFan> Yeah Tricky Dick made you a DEA! LOL! Oct-08-12    WannaBe: So far, I've counted 3 MIAs in my division at work. =)) Oct-08-12    technical draw: Cincinnati was my former favorite team. That was in the 70's in the big red machine days. Now my team is the Yankees. I'll have mixed feelings if the Reds and the Yankees were to meet in the world series. Oct-08-12    OhioChessFan: <I'll have mixed feelings if the Reds and the Yankees were to meet in the world series.> Me too. I'll have to decide if I hate the Yankees or the traitorous rat td more. Oct-08-12    Jim Bartle: Tha Yankees better hope they don't meet the Reds. They got swept--more like crushed--last time. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Oct-08-12    technical draw: <Jim> I was a Reds fan in '76 so I was probably gloating over the 4 game sweep. I think it was in '96 that I changed alliances. Oct-08-12    Phony Benoni: In the last couple of weeks, I've seen the Tigers win with a walk-off infield groundout and a walkoff sacrifice fly. In the past, I've seen walkoff wild pitches, walkoff passed balls, walkoff walks, walkoff hit-by-pitches, and walkoff strikeouts where the third strike got past the catcher. However, the Holy Grail remains the Walk-off Catcher's Interference. When that happens, I will have seen everything. Oct-08-12    Jim Bartle: How about a walkoff balk? Oct-08-12    Phony Benoni: Well, everybody knows about the time Charlie Brown balked home the tying and winning runs in the championship game. As for reality, the statheads over at Baseball Reference found about a dozen, of which this is the first: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... A couple of interesting things, like walking Frank Robinson intentionally with runners on first and second to face Tony Perez--who, of course, was still officially a rookie. And the Cubs are probably still moaning, "We traded Lou Brock for this?" Oct-08-12    tbentley: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... The part in bold doesn't make sense to me. Oct-08-12    Jim Bartle: Garvey at shortstop sounds like a horror film. And third base not much better. Oct-08-12    Jim Bartle: I hate to read this: Alex Karras has only days to live. I always liked the guy starting from reading the great chapter about him in "Paper Lion." What a character, and a great player, too. I guess the Lions had Schmidt, Karras, Walker, Night Train Lane, LeBeau, Yale Lary, and Roger Brown on the same defense. I remember Karras said he could have blocked Tom Dempsey's field goal, except he was laughing too hard at the idea of trying a 74-yarder: "And then we heard this sound, a deeper more powerful sound than we'd ever heard before..." Oct-09-12    WannaBe: http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/... Oct-09-12    Phony Benoni: <tbentley> Amazing. Now I have seen everything. As for the statement in bold, do you mean this from the final inning: <rule 6.08(c) C Int and balk!! Bench per TSN stepped in front of plate on Mota SBH attempt and tagged him but that is interference-bases loaded so Crawford given RBI but in exact same situation in different year batter 0 RBI we are unable to show this as one play;> Retrosheet has a standard method for describing games, but this was a unique situation that didn't fit any of their scenarios. The catcher's interference occurred when Bench stepped in front of the plate without the ball to tag out Mota, who was trying to steal home. Normally, in this case the batter is awarded first base, but no runners are allowed to advance. (This is all in rule 6.08c). However, the rule also refers to a special penalty in rule 7.07, that states when a runner is trying to steal home both catcher's interference and a balk are called. With the bases loaded this means the runner scores in any event. Now here is the interesting part. If the play is counted as catcher's interference, the batter gets a run batted in (rule 10.04b). In the other game mentioned, the bases probably weren't loaded, meaning the runner scored only because of the balk; thus, the batter got no RBI. As for the other bolded passage: <both Dodger sources show Garvey to SS then back to 3B, guess here in this inning-last year LA also did this; Mac and Neft don't show Garvey ever playing SS.> What I imagine happened here was that the Dodgers were anticipating a bunt, and figured Wills could handle it at 3B better than Garvey. Oct-09-12    Phony Benoni: <JB> I watched the Dempsey field goal on TV, and was screaming "Watch out for the fake! It has to be a fake!" Some birthday present. Oct-09-12    Jim Bartle: Oops, typed wrong above. I meant a 63-yd FG, of course. Oct-09-12    keypusher: More re Karras: In 1962 the Lions were the only team to beat the Packers, on Thanksgiving. Earlier in the year they were leading the Packers 7-6 when Milt Plum threw a late interception. The Packers kicked a FG to win. Karras apparently had to be restrained from pummeling Plum in the locker room. The game was the subject of Vince Lombardi's <Run to Daylight>, a very good book, or so I thought when I was ten. http://www.pro-football-reference.c... http://www.pro-football-reference.c... Sacks weren't an official stat in 1962 but PFR shows ten for the Lions in the Thanksgiving game. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 428 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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