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 737 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-20-15    juan31: ♔ ANNOUNCEMENT ♔ <Game Prediction Contest> for the <Bilbao Masters 2015> tournament. In <Golden Executive Forum> Round 1 will be played next Monday October 26 16:00 CET(UTC+1:00). The posting pairings (probably sometime Sunday). At that point, the game prediction contest will be open. Line-up: Viswanathan Anand, Anish Giri, Liren Ding, Wesley So. Rounds: 6 (double round robin). Sofia and Bilbao rules apply. <ALL ARE WELCOME > Oct-20-15    WannaBe: Early line for tomorrow's KC/TOR game, -110 (even) O/U 8.5 Oct-20-15    WannaBe: That was a freakin' BRILLIANT play, put up your hands as the ball rolled into the ivy. Saved a run, at least!! Oct-20-15    Jim Bartle: Or he could have made a big show of looking for the ball, and the umps would have got the idea. I don't think the rightfielder touched the ball, but I wonder what the rule is if a player has touched it and then it gets stuck in the ivy. Oct-20-15    Jim Bartle: Put a Luzinski or an Incaviglia in left, and you're going to the pay the price sometimes. Oct-20-15    WannaBe: Cheapest game 5 in Toronto, $45.00 I see that for section 121 (Behind home plate) can be bought for $170.00(!!) Cheapest game 4 in Chicago, $145.00 Oct-20-15    WannaBe: <SportsCenter @SportsCenter '04 Red Sox: 0-3 going into Game 4 of ALCS. Result: WS Title, ends 86-year drought. '15 Cubs: 0-3 going into Game 4 of NLCS...> ????? Oct-20-15    WannaBe: As of right now, Utah @ USC, have Utah as +3.5 underdog. ??????? Oct-21-15    Jim Bartle: In "Moneyball" Billy Beane says that a player's defensive ability doesn't matter that much, that the difference between good and bad defense doesn't really add up to that much, that a player's ability to get on base is much more important. Yet as I watch playoff games I notice many of the closer games turn on either good or bad defensive plays. The Cubs lost last night in part because a catcher couldn't hold a third strike and the slugging leftfielder couldn't catch a line drive over his head. Maybe that attitude is a reason Beane's A's have never won anything in the postseason. Oct-21-15    Penguincw: Huge inning for the Jays, as they go up 5-0 in Game 5, which is an elimination game. Oct-21-15    WannaBe: We may not have a baseball game to watch tomorrow... Oct-21-15    WannaBe: Add insult to injury, strike out and hit by a pitch... Oct-21-15    WannaBe: Don't recall ever seeing WP turned into CS before. Oct-21-15    Phony Benoni: It's all Steve Bartman's fault. When he showed up, at least the Cubs were competitive. Oct-21-15    Penguincw: < WannaBe: Don't recall ever seeing WP turned into CS before. > I think one time during an NLDS, a runner took off from 1st trying to steal, the ball was a wild pitch, but the catcher threw out the runner at 3rd. Does that count? In other news: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/.... The Mets are likely to advance, but not certain! BTW: 2 weeks ago, the Texas governor prematurely congratulating the Astros on advancing to the ALCS, and hoped for an all-Texas ALCS. Sorry, I'm <Back to the Future>. Remind me what happened? Oct-21-15    WannaBe: <Penguincw> Hmmmm.... Tonight, it was at second base, very very unusual play. Looking at the live box score, there's no CS or WP. The ball definitely went off the glove of the catcher, so unless it was a strike 3 with man on first base, and runner had to advance. Oct-22-15    Jim Bartle: As far as I can figure out, this year's Series will be the first between two expansion teams. None of the sixteen pre-1961 teams will be playing. Oct-22-15    Jim Bartle: With the articles on the 40th anniversary of game six, I took a look at the final innings. Here's Doyle getting thrown out at home in the 9th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHQ... Why didn't Doyle slide? He probably would have been safe. The announcers didn`t say a thing; today they would have analyzed it frame by frame (does video have frames?) and probably condemned Doyle. Oct-22-15    WannaBe: 1. Brief history of beer & champaigne celebration: http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/1... 2. Let's play <Phony Benoni> Forum Jeopardy! Answer: Jason Veritek, Ed Vosberg, Michael Conforto Oct-22-15    keypusher: <Jim Bartle: In "Moneyball" Billy Beane says that a player's defensive ability doesn't matter that much, that the difference between good and bad defense doesn't really add up to that much, that a player's ability to get on base is much more important.> Supposedly Beane has changed his mind. <Among small-market teams, the A's and Twins, for example, didn't take the same approach as much as some folks think they did; Billy Beane thought for quite awhile that defense was overrated and pioneered the Earl Weaver school of sabermetrics, while the Twins believed in defense so much they trained their staff to pitch-to-contact. > http://www.beachwoodreporter.com/sp... My vague impression is that sabermetricians think they've gotten much better at evaluating defense and gauging its importance. Oct-22-15    Jim Bartle: Interesting. Certainly defensive stats have advanced a great deal, though they are also headache-inducing to read. I think the psychological value of having a good defense is important. Whitey Herzog wrote he told his pitchers, "Throw the ball over the plate, you've got a great defense behind you which can catch almost everything." The Cubs playing Schwarber in the outfield is a classic case of giving up defense for offense. He certainly can hit, but he doesn't seem capable of catching anything but routine balls. Oct-22-15    WannaBe: Yeeeeesh, them 4th & 19ers are getting killed!! Oct-22-15    WannaBe: Woo, them Bruins are showing some teeth vs Golden Bears!! Oct-22-15    WannaBe: Since Super Bowl 50 is at Levi Stadium, I looked it up on Stubhub, cheapest tix is $4,000 after fees, $4,600 and change... 15% fee collected by Stubhub. Ugh. Just hoping my 2 tix investment in that Cal/Stanford game works out. Otherwise I'll have to go to the game meself! =)) Oct-22-15    Jim Bartle: If you want your Big Game tickets to earn a profit, you better hope for Cal to come back vs. UCLA. Sorry to get nostalgic, but one of my best memories as a kid was going with the Cal band to the UCLA game in the Coliseum in 1967. I was in high school, a gofer for the band, and spent most of the night game down in the field. Watched the play up close, Gary Beban dissecting the Bears, a brilliant performance on his way to the Heisman. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 737 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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