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 439 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Nov-11-12    WannaBe: The 4th and 9ers just lucked out, illegal formation wiped out an eighty yard gain! Ouch for the Lambs... Nov-11-12    WannaBe: What is the O/U on number of turn-overs in the Hou-Chi game? Nov-11-12    WannaBe: Let's see, 3rd QBs today got knocked out today, Vick (PHI), Smith (SF), and now Cutler (CHI). None of the previous 2 teams won with their starting QB not in the game. Nov-12-12    WannaBe: Seriously, bring back the replacement refs... http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-s... Nov-12-12    keypusher: Dolphins lost 37-3, worst home defeat since 1968 to the Chiefs...and that team won the Super Bowl a year later. No one will confuse the 2012 Titans with the 1968 Chiefs, mostly because the uniforms are different and the Chiefs mostly had crewcuts, but anyway... Very strange game. Fins were favored by six, probably their best line since 2008. Nov-12-12    Travis Bickle: Hey Phony, what horrible, miserable, disgusting weather conditions yesterday! It was The Bears turn to give the ball away numerous times. I wish The Bears players would have retaliated that head hunter Tim Dobbins who knocked out Jay Cutler. The buffoon said he hit Cutler in the chest, yeah right! It was helmet to helmet. Anyway after the 2 fumbles and throwing picks The Bears only lost by 7. The Texans clearly had the better offensive line and could rush the football, although it took Arian Foster 29 rushes to go over 100 yards. Bears back-up QB jason Campbell was clearly not ready to play. I know back-up QB's don't take snaps with the 1st string offense but he was throwing 4 yard check downs when The Bears needed to score. Anyway it only gets worse we have San Fran next monday night, LOL! They also lost their QB to a concussion yesterday. Nov-12-12    OhioChessFan: I know two people who saw the game said it was a dirty hit by Dobbins. Nov-12-12    Jim Bartle: 49ers aren't all that good. Not really worse for da Bears. Nov-12-12    Travis Bickle: <OhioChessFan> Elvis, you're Bengals really beat up The Giants! Nov-12-12    Travis Bickle: <Jim Bartle> Jim should be a really physical game next Monday night! Nov-13-12    OhioChessFan: They still stink <TB> Nov-13-12    WannaBe: From http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/do... Fourth paragraph: <Either way, you can't win...> Reaction: Wait, only 200 fans showed up for Nebraska-Penn State game?!?! Wow. Nov-14-12    WannaBe: T. Hunter signs 2-years contract with Tigers, pending passing physical! Nov-14-12    Phony Benoni: Widely expected, and a good move for the Tigers. They have some good outfield prospects in the minors who need another year or two of seasoning. Hunter helps the defense, helps the right-handed hitting, and is by all reports a good clubhouse guy. Nov-14-12    Jim Bartle: I don't know. I sure hope they don't want him to play centerfield and moving Jackson. In general I don't see signing 37-year-old on the way down unless they're really great players. Nov-14-12    Phony Benoni: No, he's slated to play right field and bat second. He is probably past his best, but still hit .316 this year. Nov-15-12    Shams: None of his points will be novel to the baseball cognoscenti on this page, but I quite like how Nate Silver lays out the case for Trout as MVP: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytime... Nov-15-12    Stonehenge: Amsterdam (1899), Tidjschrift should be Tijdschrift and Weiner should be Wiener :) Nov-15-12    Jim Bartle: The Silver article on the AL MVP is really interesting. He certainly writes much better about the advanced statistical analysis these days than most of the guys at SI and ESPN. But I don't think you can pick an MVP solely by looking at statistics, no matter how sophisticated. Cabrera won the Triple Crown and his team won its division. Any player who does that is the MVP. (And Trout's team didn't make the playoffs.) Silver says Cabrera cost the Tigers overall with his defense. I can't say, but he was pretty good when I saw him play. Plus he was playing a really tough position, third base. Trout played centerfield, an important defensive position, and I guess very well. But he also played a lot of leftfield, which is less demanding and less important. I think a player on a non-winning team can be the MVP, but not if someone on a winning team had a great year as well. Nov-15-12    Jim Bartle: RA Dickey wins the Cy Young in a landslide, the first knuckleballer to win. Dickey's an amazing story, bouncing around until age 35, then becoming a top pitcher. Really close between Price and Verlander in the AL, but I think Verlander was a little better. Nov-15-12    Phony Benoni: <Stonehenge> Thanks; corrections made. Nov-15-12    Shams: And Cabrera wins. You didn't quite convince me, <JB>, but 22 of the 28 voters were in agreement. Trivia: name the only Super Bowl MVP from a losing team. Nov-15-12    Jim Bartle: It was a linebacker on Dallas in the 1971 game against Baltimore, considered the worst-played Super Bowl in history. Don't remember his name. Nov-15-12    Shams: <JB> Chuck Howley. I had remembered him as a d-back, but you're right. Back to baseball: The 19th century pitcher Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn once won 60 games in a season. (He pitched the last 27 games of the season, winning 26 of them.) He was also a pretty good hitter. But he is notable for another reason too-- what is it? (Two answers accepted.) Nov-16-12    Jim Bartle: He was actually a horse? Super Bowl answer: Right. Chuck Howley. I remember that game as being so boring that people turned it off, even though it went to overtime. It was immediately dubbed the Blunder Bowl. But that Super Bowl was important for another reason. With NFL team Baltimore representing the AFC, the game ended the AFL-NFL rivalry in the Superbowl (it stood at 2-2 at the time). 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