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 680 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jun-13-15    Travis Bickle: Mr Benoni, may I ask who won the game? Jun-13-15    Penguincw: Haha, and the Blue Jays win their 10th straight game! They could not have done it without Jose Bautista, who robbed someone of a home run earlier in the game. They also got a save, as Brett Cecil ties for the lead in saves, with 4. :| Also, yesterday the Blue Jays won their 9th in a row, the 3rd season in a row they've done so. Is that some kind of record? Jun-13-15    Phony Benoni: Well, Travis, looks like the Cubs won that one. But giving up 14 hits in a game is not a recipe for success! Jun-13-15    Jim Bartle: Back in the dead ball era, with little possibility of a home run, pitchers were known to throw their best (hardeest) only when "pitching in a pinch," as Mathewson said. So perhaps the Cubs pitcher just bore down and threw harder with men in scoring position. Jun-13-15    WannaBe: Giants being no hit again, after 5 innings. The last time it happened in back to back games, was against Arizona. =)) Jun-13-15    WannaBe: There goes the no-no... Bottom of the sixth. Jun-13-15    WannaBe: Ruth and Anson have no official RBI record. That's new one for me. http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/sto... But kim Jung Il have 4,573,231 RBIs, in a day-night double header, according to news report. Jun-13-15    Penguincw: < WannaBe: There goes the no-no... Bottom of the sixth. > As a Dodgers fan, I'm slightly annoyed by the fact that the Giants constantly are being no-hit, and you keep jinxing it... Jun-13-15    WannaBe: No worries my friend, I'm the one livin' in enemy territory up here. =) Jun-13-15    Penguincw: Oh no! The Dodgers are being no-hit through 1 inning in their game in San Diego. D: Oh wait, it's only 1 inning. Normally no one notices until it's at least 3 innings. UPDATE: That's kinda funny. The second I click "POST KIBITZ", I check Gameday on MLB, and on the bottom, I see "SINGLE". :D Jun-13-15    Phony Benoni: That may change for Ruth. Box scores prior to 1920 are slowly being tabulated, and as they become verified and checked Ruth should eventually get credit for everything. Anson might be a different case. It's a long, long way back to 1871, and the box scores just might not be there. Jun-13-15    Penguincw: Speaking of no-hitters, I see Chris Heston is pitching again tomorrow, the very first start since his no-hitter. What I've noticed a lot is that when a pitcher is coming off a no-hitter, their following start tends to be really bad. Hoping that'll happen here (and maybe De La Rosa can make a no-hit bid). Jun-14-15    Phony Benoni: I had to look up Bobo Holloman: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Jun-14-15    Phony Benoni: And, on the other hand, Harvey Haddix: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Jun-14-15    Travis Bickle: Phony, when I asked the score of The Cubs vs Giants game form the '30's I wasn't busting your chops I just wanted to know the score... I enlarged my screen to 1,000,000 % & I still couldn't find it! Jun-14-15    Phony Benoni: <Travis> The final score was Cubs 7, Giants 0. Sorry, about that. The site can be tricky to use if you're not used to it, but I couldn't find the box score anywhere else. What I have to do is hold down the CTRL key while rotating the scroll thingee on my mouse. No idea of what you might need to do. Jun-14-15    WannaBe: Bottom Six at Milwaukee, Brewers have 0 hit, Scherzer for Nats. Top 5, Mariners have 0 hit, Seattle at Houston, McCullers pitching for the 'Stros. Jun-14-15    Penguincw: Milwaukee is another team I don't like (the Cardinals are my 2nd favourite American baseball team, but Reds are cool as well). SEA-HOU, I like Seattle a bit more, but it's pretty much neutral; both no-hitters are gone now. Speaking of a no-no, it looks like Johnny Vander Meer's record will stay safe for at least another 6 days or so, as Heston gave up a one-out double to end his streak of no-hit innings at 10 1/3 (the start before his no-hitter, the last batter he faced tripled). The Giants' first batter got a hit as well, but the Giants still trail 3-0! Let's see if the D-Backs can pull off the sweep! :) Jun-14-15    Phony Benoni: We've seen that the current known record for hits in a nine-inning shutout is 14. That's nowhere near the theoretical maximum, of course, which is...? Jun-14-15    Penguincw: I'm guessing it's 45 (3 straight singles, pickoff at 3rd, another single, another pickoff at 3rd, one last single, and an out, any way, times 9 innings). Jun-14-15    OhioChessFan: 54, of course. Jun-14-15    Penguincw: Oh, I see. If a runner on 3rd gets hit by a ground ball in fair territory, that's an out, but a hit is credited to the batter. Never knew that. Of course, runners on third are always instructed to run in foul territory to avoid being called out for interference. I was wondering if a batter hits a single, but the runner on 3rd trips and falls and there's a force out at the plate, would that count? In other news, Giants get swept by the snakes. :) Jun-14-15    Phony Benoni: Indeed, 54 is the maximum. Hit, pick-off, hit, pick-off, three singles loading the bases, batted ball hits runner and batter is credited with a hit. As a practical matter, 27 wouldn't be totally impossible; there are any number of common ways to get three hits in an inning without scoring. They just aren't going to happen nine inning in a row. Real life has yet to go above fourteen, and eighteen Is perhaps the realistic limit. Jun-14-15    Phony Benoni: Here's a neat shutout for you: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... At only 1:15, the shortest night game in history. There was probably still enough daylight that Ernie Banks would have wanted to play another one. Winning pitcher Red Barrett walked none, struck out none, and threw only 58 pitches. Jun-14-15    WannaBe: Musta been a lot of first pitch swinging. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 680 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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