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 706 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Aug-26-15    WannaBe: So, I'm watching this LAA-DET game on MLBTV, and they are advertising "My Favourite Thing" auction, with a link of tigers.com/wives Who really need Ashley Madison!? I mean c'mon!! Aug-26-15    WannaBe: 6 more outs... Only blemish so far is 1 BB. Aug-26-15    WannaBe: Well, another BB, but was erased on a DP, he can still face the minimum but not have a perfecto. 3 more outs to go. (I don't know the last pitcher to face 27 but not a perfect game). Aug-26-15    Phony Benoni: Well, Harry, looks like it's you against the world. Good practice for the play-offs! But I ain't following the Cubbies right now, and I don't think you can blame me! Aug-26-15    WannaBe: Freakin' hilarious, camera just showed him sitting down in the dugout on a random spot. The player closest to him just got up and walked away as fast as he could. Think he's got cooties?? Aug-26-15    WannaBe: Detroit will not challenge close play at first, replay show the runner was safe. Aug-26-15    WannaBe: There it goes... Chalk line double. Aug-26-15    WannaBe: For consolation, Verlander gets a CG, SHO, and a week's supply of ice for his arm. Aug-26-15    Penguincw: < WannaBe: (I don't know the last pitcher to face 27 but not a perfect game). > That would actually be Verlander as well. In May of 2011, he faced the Blue Jays and only allowed a one out 12 pitch walk, which was erased on a double play. It was a no-hitter. I also believe Ervin Santana allowed one run in a no hitter, faced 28 (which is the minimum he could've faced). This is assuming I haven't missed anything (this is coming off the top of my head). Anyway, thank you Verlander for one hitting the Angels. I don't think they will affect Toronto's postseason hopes, but thanks anyway! Jays lead 6-2 in the 6th! Aug-26-15    Phony Benoni: Seems the only way the Tigers can win anymore is for the starter to throw a one-hit shutout. Since coming off a six-week stay on the DL, Miguel Cabrera has raised his batting average from .350 to .370 and made a mockery of that race. What I'm really hoping for is keeping his string of 100 RBI seasons alive. Two more tonight means He needs 35 RsBI in 36 games, which will probably become less likely if he keeps hitting .370 and starts getting the Bonds treatment. Aug-26-15    Phony Benoni: And, by the way, the Tigers did the right thing by not challenging that play. With your pitcher going into the 9th with a no-hitter, the last thing you want is for him to spend another 5-10 minutes sitting on the bench scaring everybody. Maybe if it had been a 1-0 game--but with a 5-0 score, get on with it. Aug-26-15    WannaBe: Phony Benoni chessforum So, what makes Rennie Stennett so special? He is the only catcher to have caught 2 Perfecto. Aug-26-15    Phony Benoni: Not, that was Wilbert Robinson. Rennie Stennett was Cesar Gutierrez in a hurry. http://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/june... http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Aug-26-15    Jim Bartle: <pb> I thought you of all people would understand it's in really bad taste to mention Rennie Stennett in the presence of a Giants' fan. Aug-26-15    Jim Bartle: While attempting to look up the 1970 O's, I got sidetracked onto the 1970 Giants. Despite a staff led by Marichal and Perry, they gave up 820 runs, most in the majors. Terrible. They also gave up about 90 unearned runs. Isn't that a lot? Also: McCovey, 40 intentional walks (137 walks total). Ron Hunt, hit by pitch 26 times. Bobby Bonds, 189 whiffs (hit .302 though, .420 when not striking out). Aug-26-15    Jim Bartle: I don't know if this is too obscure, or even interesting, but what's the famous anecdote associated with this 1969 Giants-Dodgers game: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... The date is important. Aug-27-15    Penguincw: That was the day of the moon landing (I think), but not sure how that related to the game. In other news, Toronto trailed 2-0, comes back to crush Texas 12-4! 2 game lead, magic number down to 35, for a postseason spot, it's 31. Postseason tickets are already on sale for season ticket holders! Aug-27-15    Jim Bartle: Right. It's related to the moon landing. Aug-27-15    WannaBe: <Phony Benoni> You are correct, I mentioned 2 names (last week) and had them crossed. Silly Wabbit... Re: LAD-SF game on "Moon Day" http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseba... Aug-27-15    WannaBe: If you read the full article on that Snopes page, another 'cute' name jumps out... "Harry Jupiter"?! Gotta be a conspiracy there, somewhere, anywhere!! Aug-27-15    keypusher: <Jim Bartle: <pb> I thought you of all people would understand it's in really bad taste to mention Rennie Stennett in the presence of a Giants' fan.> I had no idea what you were talking about until I checked google. Not to increase your pain, but what do you think happened? Did they just drastically overpay for a marginal talent, or did he undergo an inexplicable collapse, or some combination of the two? Aug-27-15    keypusher: I went and did a little more looking -- Stennett clearly never recovered from breaking his leg in 1977. That contract made no sense at all. Aug-27-15    Jim Bartle: When Gaylord Perry first came to spring training in 1963, manager Alvin Dark said, "There will be a man on the moon before this guy hits a home run." The moon landing was July 20, 2:15 pm Pacific time. Perry hit his first home run, against the Dodgers, in the third inning of a game which started at 1 p.m. Was Dark right or wrong? Seems nobody is sure. Aug-27-15    WannaBe: Here's some more that I've dug up: (A little more than half way down the article, the link is dated July 18, 2015) <San Francisco: I’ve read four different accounts of this game (in the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner and the Los Angeles Times and Herald-Examiner), none of which offer any real detail about how the news of the landing was announced. A story in the news section of the Examiner, about what was going on around the city at the time of the landing, included this: “Out at Candlestick Park a crowd of 32,500 watching the Giants-Dodgers game let out a huge roar when the moon landing was announced over the public address system.” The only mention of the landing in Bob Stevens’ game story in the Chronicle was that the crowd was “remarkably large in light of the Apollo 11 moon landing.” (It was the Giants’ largest crowd of the season to that point and would wind up being their second-largest of the year.) Bob Hunter, in his Herald-Examiner game story, noted Dodger third baseman Bill Sudakis walked to load the bases in the top of the first inning “at the exact moment when the astronauts landed.”> https://prestonjg.wordpress.com/201... Aug-27-15    WannaBe: Since it occurred in July, UTC to Pacific Time would be 7 hours difference. Moon landing took place 20:17 UTC (Wiki page), which makes it 13:17 Pacific time. If the game started 1PM, and according to the article by prestonjg, quoting Herald-Examiner, Sudakis walked to load the bases as the landing, would make sense. (Top of the first inning) Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 706 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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