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 735 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-17-15    Jim Bartle: Jays only got three hits. But it's just one game. Oct-17-15    Phony Benoni: Just about kickoff time for Michigan State (6-0) at Michigan (5-1). The Wolverines are favored by 7-8 points, which is way too much in my view. They are not as good, nor is MSU as bad, as has been seen thus far. Right now Jim Harbaugh could be elected mayor of Ann Arbor, and a win in this game could elevate him up to Governor. If he beats Ohio State as well, Pope Francis had better start looking for other work. But these rapid rises have ways of becoming rapid falls, often in disgrace. Hasn't Harbaugh a record of being a Quick Fix artist with little lasting effect? Oct-17-15    WannaBe: Baseball should be starting soon, too. Gonna be a glorious Autumn Saturday. Oct-17-15    Penguincw: < Gonna be a glorious Autumn Saturday. > Maybe in Kansas, but I heard some parts of the province (near the GTA) are getting snow. You know what snow is, right? Toronto off to a good start against Ventura (the guy who plunked Donaldson three times without an ejection), up 1-0! Oct-17-15    Phony Benoni: Sort of unfair to make Toronto - KC play day game after night game, but of course Cubs - Mets has to be the prime time game. I can live with it, since they're not playing at Wrigley. Oct-17-15    Phony Benoni: I'm going to have to disable this forum before <Penguincw> has a nervous breakdrown. Oct-17-15    WannaBe: Looks like I missed a great MSU/UM game... Oct-17-15    Phony Benoni: I knew they shouldn't have hired Joe Pisarcik as punting coach. Oct-17-15    Jim Bartle: Unbelievable. But they're college kids, not pros. Harbaugh won quickly at Stanford and with Niners, and kept on winning, except his last year with Santa Clara. The problem is he is so intense, grating and unrelenting that people can no longer stand him. Oct-17-15    WannaBe: Interesting, Cubs have their pitcher hitting 9th! Pitchers for the Cubs batted 8th in game 2 and 4 vs Cardinals. Batted 9th in the game vs Pittsburgh and games 1 and 3 vs Cardinals. Oct-17-15    Penguincw: < Phony Benoni: I'm going to have to disable this forum before <Penguincw> has a nervous breakdrown. > I'm going to refrain from commenting on today's game until Game 3. Oct-18-15    Phony Benoni: The player who scored that last-second touchdown for Michigan State is in the hospital with a dislocated hip suffered during the celebration. Surprised that doesn't happen more often. You see some vicious hits and tackles. Oct-18-15    Jim Bartle: Another wacky stats quote: <And that spectacular line in the box score joined him with Jacob deGrom in this year's NLDS and Dwight Gooden in the 1988 NLCS as the only Mets to go at least seven innings, strike out nine or more and give up no more than two runs in a postseason game since Tom Seaver unleashed a 12-strikeout masterpiece against Oakland in Game 3 of the 1973 World Series.> Oct-18-15    WannaBe: You know, with that 3-day weekend, I forgot to update the road team time zone stats. Week 5 (1-3) <LOST> Seattle @ Cincinnati <WIN> Arizona @ Detroit <LOST> San Francisco @ New York <LOST> Pittsburgh @ San Diego That bring running total to 5-16 for Two or More Time-Zone on the road. While rest of the league's road team went 6-4, and that brings the running total to 29-27. For Week 6: <???> Arizona @ Pittsburgh <???> Denver @ Cleveland <???> Carolina @ Seattle <???> San Diego @ Green Bay <???> Baltimore @ San Francisco Oct-18-15    Jim Bartle: <LOST> Pittsburgh @ San Diego Didn't Pittsburgh win that one, in the last second? Oct-18-15    WannaBe: <Jim Bartle> You are correct, I need to change that to 6-15 Oct-18-15    OhioChessFan: <<LOST> Seattle @ Cincinnati > Haha! Oct-18-15    Jim Bartle: Lions got a break in their favor today. No way did Tate catch that ball. Oct-18-15    Penguincw: Baseball and chess: http://m.mlb.com/news/article/15486.... Oct-18-15    WannaBe: If Toronto and NYM face off for the World Series, this trade will be talked to death. http://m.mlb.com/news/article/40669... Oct-18-15    Jim Bartle: I looked up Cespedes' year and I wonder what the SABR guys think about him. He hit 35 homers and 105 RBIs, 101 runs, OPS .870, pretty great. But he had 676 plate appearances, and made 449 outs. That has to be close to the most in the league. Oct-18-15    WannaBe: So, last year Phony Benoni chessforum we had the mysterious Marlins guy. And later we learned his story. This year, we have the iPad guy: http://www.sbnation.com/2015/10/11/... And remember this one from a year ago? Phony Benoni chessforum Well, 1. Don't win Manager of the Year in your first year. 2. Don't let me post about it. Oct-18-15    WannaBe: Monday's game, Toronto is -167(!!) O/U 8. Stroman and J. Cueto. If Cueto can pitch like he did last time, good money can be won by taking KC. Oct-18-15    Phony Benoni: Cespedes' 449 outs , though impressive, wouldn't have made the Top Ten in either league. Most was Dozier of Minnesota with 502. Oct-19-15    Jim Bartle: I'm surprised some batters made so many outs, or had so many plate appearances. I find Dozier had 480 fewer hits than at bats, so I guess 502 includes hitting into double plays. Which makes sense. So Cespedes gets 14 more outs. 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