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 455 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-06-13    Phony Benoni: Birds of Prey? You mean the Oklahoma Christian University Eagles? Jan-06-13    jnpope: Hey <Phony Benoni>, can you contact me via email? npope at the chessarch.com website... John Donaldson sent me a photograph (via John Hilbert). It may be from a simul given at the Detroit Chess Club before the current incarnation of the MCA... they would like to identify the simul giver (whom I do not recognize), but if we can identify some of the crowd it may help confirm the location and perhaps establish a time-frame. Jan-06-13    Phony Benoni: <jnpope> e-mail sent. Hope I got the address right. Jan-07-13    jnpope: You did it right. Picture sent. Jan-07-13    WannaBe: 7-0 Tides, looked good on their drive, aided by an off sides and a face mask... Jan-07-13    WannaBe: Whooooooey, 14-0... Jan-09-13    WannaBe: No player got elected into baseball HoF this year. Jan-09-13    Jim Bartle: Wow, looks like they're taking this steroids thing seriously. I thought Biggio would get in, but he will have to wait. Greatest catcher-second baseman-centerfielder in baseball history. Jan-09-13    Shams: <WannaBe><No player got elected into baseball HoF this year.> The NY Times makes the case for a <negative> number of inductees: <Rabbit Maranville is in the hall only because he happened to play for the 1914 Miracle Braves. Toss him out. Ray Schalk is a baseball immortal mostly because he was not in on the plot by his Black Sox teammates to throw the 1919 World Series. But then, lots of players never threw a World Series. Out. Roger Bresnahan was a perfectly adequate catcher. He is really in the hall because he introduced the catcher's mask and the shinguard. Does this mean we have to vote Steve Yeager in for inventing the little mask flap that protects the catcher's Adam's apple? What about the guy who bought the first resin bag or corked the first bat? Out. Out. Out. Maybe 90 percent of the truly demented selections over the years come from the Committee on Veterans. Each year when the committee votes, informed fans can usually be found under their beds, awaiting another dread announcement that somebody like Tookie Gilbert or Marv Throneberry has just been declared a baseball immortal.> http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/24/s... "Throneberry" is an amazing name. Jan-09-13    WannaBe: I'd vote for "Rabbit Maranville", HoF material! Jan-10-13    playground player: <Shams> Rabbit Maranville had a very long career and was always one of the premier shortstops of the National League. Roger Bresnahan was a .300 hitter who stole a lot of bases--very unusual for a catcher. As someone who never saw these guys play, I can't bring myself to say "Toss 'em out!" Whereas I did see a lot of Marve Throneberry... And I gotta believe Thurman Munson was a much more valuable player than either Rick Ferrell or Ray Schalk. But they're in the Hall and Munson isn't. Jan-10-13    Jim Bartle: The HoF is overloaded with players from the 20s and 30s, when there was so much hitting. Jan-10-13    WannaBe: Now, for some comedy relief: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-s... Jan-10-13    Phony Benoni: <pgp> Rick Ferrell deserved Hall of Fame induction (or at least sainthood) for the 1945 season, when he was the regular catcher for the 2nd place Washing Senators with a starting staff that featured four knucklebalelrs. Ferrell retired before the next season. Jan-10-13    Phony Benoni: However, it should be noted that Rick Ferrell didn't have much power. He hit only 28 home runs in an 18-year career, ten less than his brother, Wes. The really bad part is that Wes was a pitcher. Jan-10-13    Jim Bartle: McClain's arrest could have been a real black mark for the NFL if he played in the league. Fortunately he's on the Raiders. Jan-10-13    OhioChessFan: Tata Steel Moves Prediction Contest, sponsored by the legendary <chessmoron> and hosted in my forum, is now open. First round begins Saturday the 12th. Click on Elvis for details. Jan-10-13    Shams: <playground player> What do you think should happen with these great players from the steroid era, who otherwise would stand a good chance of being admitted to the Hall? Jan-10-13    playground player: <Shams> I think they should go on to live their lives as best they can without being in the Hall of Fame. They got caught cheating. If they go in, why not Joe Jackson and Pete Rose? Then again, standards are so low everywhere else these days, no one would even notice if the Hall of Fame debauched itself, too. Jan-10-13    Jim Bartle: McGwire has accepted that he will never be in the Hall, and understands why. Don't know about the rest. Jan-10-13    WannaBe: Of course he can be in the Hall, just have buy a tix at the front door, like moi! Jan-10-13    Jim Bartle: Or across the street like Pete Rose selling autographs and memorabilia. Jan-11-13    Blunderdome: I'd like to see the voters adopt presumption of innocence here. Take Bagwell -- never accused of anything, not named in Canseco's books, absolutely nothing against him. Yet voters are prejudiced against him because he hit for power and was apparently friends with Caminiti. Ridiculous. I realize it would mean some likely users get in. Too bad. Baseball's fault for not adopting stronger policies earlier. Doesn't mean we can condemn every player who excelled during that decade. Or worse, keep them out of the hall because of vague doubts without ever bringing real allegations. http://www.baseball-reference.com/p... Biggio will get in; unlike Bagwell, it was his first ballot. I'd like to see Piazza and Schilling in as well. How about Clemens? From Wiki: "Clemens was found not guilty on all six counts of lying to Congress in 2008, when he testified that he never took performance-enhancing drugs." All we have against Clemens is a former trainer/unreliable witness saying he injected him with drugs. Can't hang a man on that. We'll probably never really know. But some journalists having a gut feeling is a BS reason to keep one of the greatest ever of the HOF. Jan-11-13    Blunderdome: Anyway, I came here to congratulate you on stealing Best Username from me at the eleventh hour. Heh. I didn't even think anyone liked my username. But, um, I'm warning you, this isn't over! This year I will make the name <Blunderdome> better and better -- hope you can keep up ;) Jan-11-13    Jim Bartle: I think Bagwell should be in. He did gain about 25 pounds of muscle between one season and the next, early in his career. The evidence against Clemens is pretty damning, plus all his kids have names starting with K. That's almost enough by itself. Piazza should definitely be in. I think Schilling falls just short. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 455 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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