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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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   Phony Benoni has kibitzed 18634 times to chessgames [more...]

   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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Living in the Past

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Nov-05-15		WannaBe: Found a great web site! MLB (opening day) payroll by year. http://www.stevetheump.com/Payrolls... so let's take a look at the numbers. * - Wild Card % - Division ! - Finished last in Divison <YEAR>: <Highest> <Second Highest> <Third Highest>: <World Series Winner> <WS runner-up> (payroll rank) 2015: LAD%, NYY, BOS!: KC% (16) over NYM% (21) 2014: LAD%, NYY, PHI!: SFG (7) over KC* (19) 2013: NYY, LAD%, PHI: BOS% (4) over StL% (10) 2012: NYY%, PHI, BOS!: SFG% (8) over DET% (5) 2011: NYY%, PHI%, BOS: StL* (11) over TEX% (13) 2010: NYY, BOS, CHI: SFG% (10) over TEX% (27) 2009: NYY%, NYM, CHI: NYY% (1) over PHI% (7) 2008: NYY, NYM, DET!: PHI% (13) over TB% (29) 2007: NYY, BOS%, NYM: BOS% (2) over COL* (25) 2006: NYY%, BOS, LAA: StL% (11) over DET* (14) Average salary ranking of WS Winner: 8.3 Average salary ranking of WS Loser: 17

Nov-05-15		Phony Benoni: Last week, the Lions fired three assistant coaches. Today, they fired the Team President and the General Manager. Fans complain that they still need to fired: a) Head Coach b) Quarterback c) Owners Maybe the Lions will wind up in Los Angeles.

Nov-05-15		Phony Benoni: <Tabanus> the 1974 and 1975 annual rating lists confirm <Roger> Neustaedter. The USCF Member Services Area gives <Roger E Neustaedter>: http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMa... With his birthdate knonw, the rest looks reliable of reliability. Possibly a personal communication. I had given up deep researching in the rating supplements during the 1960s when only initials were given, but those from 1974 and 1975 have full names and probably worth some work. Also, the USCF MSA area dates from 1991, so as I get into the 1970s I'lll need to check that regularly.

Nov-06-15		WannaBe: Super easy trivia. On this day Nov. 6th 1974 I became the first reliever ever to win the Cy Young Award. Who am I?

Nov-06-15		Jim Bartle: Also won the Goat Horns Award in the World Series.

Nov-06-15		Penguincw: < WannaBe: Super easy trivia. On this day Nov. 6th 1974 I became the first reliever ever to win the Cy Young Award. Who am I? > eye twitches My guess was actually Rollie Fingers, but looking on Wikipedia, it was by Mike Marshall (way too far back for me). However, I see that year, Fingers was an All-Star, World Series Champion and MVP, and was =5th in the league in saves, so it wasn't an uneducated guess. :)

Nov-06-15		Jim Bartle: Marshall pitched in over 100 games that year, and threw more than 200 innings. He finished more than 80 games, which might be a record. In the 5th game of the World Series Oakland fans starting throwing stuff at LA leftfielder Bill Buckner. There was a delay of maybe ten minutes, Alston coming out, and Marshall went out to argue as well. He didn't take any warmup throws, so hitter Joe Rudi figured the first pitch would be a fastball. He was right and Rudi hit it out for the game-winning homer. I believe he also put an end to Charlie Finley's (actually reasonable) idea of keeping an Olympic sprinter on the team to pinch run. Marshall froze Herb Washington on first and then picked him off easily.

Nov-07-15		playground player: Marshall's 1974 achievements were spectacular, and he didn't burn out, either, like Jim Konstanty after 1950. In the off-season Marshall used to make a pest of himself at Michigan State University, trying to monopolize some of the gym facilities. He had a degree in kinesiology (sp?) and his excuse was he needed to have these areas all to himself for research.

Nov-07-15		Jim Bartle: Sounds like a great guy. Someone should have asked him why he didn't take a few warmups before pitching to Rudi. He pitched in a time before this "one-inning" policy for closers. I wonder how much he could have pitched under that method.

Nov-08-15		FSR: Happy birthday!

Nov-08-15		TheFocus: Happy Birthday, <Phony Benoni>!!

Nov-08-15		wordfunph: Happy birthday!

Nov-08-15		Tabanus: Greetings from Norway! I've done my best with R Ledesma and R Ramirez, but no .. perhaps if El Mundo (Puerto Rico) 1965 was online.

Nov-08-15		Karposian: Happy Birthday!!

Nov-08-15		Phony Benoni: <Tabanus> USCF rating lists for 1974 and 1975 give <Rafael Ramirez> from Puerto Rico. But that's a decade later and the name is obviously very common. I've accepted that many of Puerto Ricans from San Juan 1965 may never be untangled.

Nov-08-15		WannaBe: As a birthday present to you, Detroit Lions promised to not lose today.

Nov-08-15		Phony Benoni: Having being fired by the second-worst run organization in the country, former Lions executives Tom Lahwon and Martin Mayhew have only one place to go. Look for them at the next Presidential debate.

Nov-08-15		WannaBe: Will the debate be aired on ESPN5, C-SPAN4 or HGTV?

Nov-08-15		Jim Bartle: Atlanta has 4th down on the two, 3 minutes left, trailing 17-13. And they kick a field goal? That doesn't make sense to me.

Nov-08-15		WannaBe: Easterbrook calls that the "safe" play by a coach. If you gone for it and failed, coach get blamed. Defense couln't stop 49ers on the following drive, so it's the players, or DC fault.

Nov-08-15		Jim Bartle: Easterbrook never wants to punt or kick a field goal. Or not often.

Nov-08-15		Jim Bartle: This is still bugging me. Let's analyse in a very general way: Chance of scoring on 4th down from the 2: 70%. Is that OK? Chance of stopping 49ers from getting FG after scoring a TD, 2 minutes left: 60%. Chance of stopping the 49ers with 0 or 1 first downs: 50%. Chance of scoring field goal after taking over with one minute left. Of course it depends how far they have to go, but let's say 65%. So, going for it gives 42% chance of winning (and not winning a large possibility is a tie with a Niner FG). Kicking the FG and hoping to kick another: 32%.

Nov-08-15		WannaBe: Easterbrook have always been in favour of going for it, especially that late in the game (with 2 time outs, as I went to the water-hole to watch the 4th qtr). Let's just say in general (and throw out the percentage numbers...) Scenario 1: You score a TD, kicks the PAT, 20-17. You look <GOLDEN> Scenario 2: You turn the ball over, 49ers' possession, first down and 10 from own 2-yard line. QB now only have 12 yards to play with, pretty much any time he is sacked, it's a safety. Anytime there is an offensive holding in the end-zone, it's a safety. If you want to power-run the football to gain a few breathing yards, and the ball is stuffed in the end zone? <SAFETY> If, <IF> you are able to hold 49ers to 3 and out, (let's say Niners gained 9 yards), the ball is on the 11-yard line. Bad snap, shanked punt, blocked punt for safety, or TD... I am sure Easterbrook will cover this Tuesday, in his Tuesday Morning Quarterback (TMQ). It's very, very befuddling strategy. With today's OAK/PIT game, Pittsburgh have gone for 2 after a (first) TD more than any other team. This is very similar to what Oregon U. did. You just scored, plenty of time to catch up and decide on strategy, go for 2. What the heck. Easterbrook often cite situations where it's 4th and 1, or two, and the ball is on the 45 yard line (going into score), and the team punt!? Okay, 63-yard field goal is probably out of the question, but how often do you coffin nail it? (Especially at college level) His argument is, go for it!

Nov-08-15		Jim Bartle: I do remember Easterbrook said always go for it on fourth down between the opponent's 35 and 45 or something like that. Too far for a good chance at a FG, and a punt likely won't gain that many yards. I don't agree with Easterbrook all the time, but he's always interesting and entertaining. And he doesn't go on and on about the brilliance of assistant coaches, which drives me nuts. Writers who do that are usually showing off or sucking up to those coaches. Do we agree that Atlanta was really conservative to take the FG?

Nov-08-15		Jim Bartle: By the way, even with the loss the Raiders looked really good today. They had the two terrible turnovers (fumble on kickoff, interception in the end zone) and still almost won. Carr isn't the new Stabler, but he'll do until one arrives.

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