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 756 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-31-15    Phony Benoni: Every microphone in the city of East Lansing has a fat lady nearby warming up her vocal cords. At least it's probably not going to matter that you got 9.5 points instead of ten. Dec-31-15    WannaBe: <Phony Benoni> Doesn't look like 9.5 or 10 will matter, I love my donation to Reno. Maybe IRS will let me write it off. =)) Jan-01-16    OhioChessFan: I thought the spread was too much, also. I did think a blowout was possible, since MSU isn't built to come from behind. Dominant performace by Bama's defense. Jan-01-16    WannaBe: C'mon Buckeyes! =) Happy MMXVI everyone. Jan-01-16    OhioChessFan: I thought OSU would beat ND like a drum. So far so good. Jan-01-16    Penguincw: <PB> For collections such as Game Collection: Puzzle of the Day 2016, how do you get the font to look like that (ex. the font for "Related collections")? Thanks. Jan-01-16    Phony Benoni: <Penguincw> It's just the regular gold text produced by bracketing. You can get it to appear that way only in collections, and sometimes it's a bit tricky to get it to work. Jan-01-16    WannaBe: Wooo, ND's making the game interesting. 28-21 OSU still ahead. Jan-01-16    keypusher: I think the early line is -4.5 for Alabama, how does that sound to you wise men? Jan-01-16    WannaBe: <keypusher> It's 7 now and 52.5, I'm hoping SEC doesn't win, otherwise they'd never shut up again. Won a bet, OSU!!! =) Jan-01-16    WannaBe: At friend's house watching Rose Bowl, first play from scrimmage, wow. Guess who my friends are rooting for!??! Jan-01-16    WannaBe: Cheapest tix to watch Clemson/Alabama will cost you, a lot!! http://www.stubhub.com/college-foot... Trees just scored, again, INT returned for TD. 21-0 Jan-01-16    Boomie: Here is a dramatic reenactment of Alabama vs Michigan State as performed by the Crittenden Ladies Auxiliary Club. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-w... Jan-01-16    WannaBe: Everyone's mad at Stanford Band, or almost everyone: http://www.sbnation.com/2016/1/1/10... Definitely 1%, as far as I know, they are the only non-traditional marching band in NCAA. Jan-02-16    WannaBe: TCU better score some points, otherwise the over (78) will be a problem. Jan-02-16    Phony Benoni: The final score will probably be Oregon 77, TCU 0. Jan-02-16    WannaBe: Them Great Horny Toads are showing signs of life, maybe it will be a fourth qtr for the record books. Jan-02-16    WannaBe: Let's see 31-20, need TCU to tie, go OT, teams to score, over 78. Piece of cake, while I'm at it, a couple of SuperLotto tix, too. Jan-02-16    Phony Benoni: It's always a fourth quarter for the record books. It's not like they toss out some of the stats because the game was boring. Jan-02-16    WannaBe: Okay, so Oregon's starting QB's out, but that doesn't explain how the defence is all of a sudden, in the second half collapsed. Going back to last year's championship game, same thing in the second half, OSU just did whatever they wanted against the Ducks. Puzzling. Well, the game is tied at 31, only need OT, and teams to score. Piece of rice cake. And then I'm gonna go to the liquor store for some SuperMegaLottoMillionElGuapa tix. Jan-02-16    WannaBe: 76 points, unbelievable, never thought this would was in the realm of possibility at halftime. Jan-02-16    WannaBe: Knuckle ball field goal for Ducks, lotto tix for everyone!!! Jan-02-16    Phony Benoni: With the college overtime rules, taking the Under seems a bad bet. Jan-03-16    WannaBe: Pittsburgh in, NY Jets, out. How you like them apricots? Jan-03-16    WannaBe: If Denver wins, they have home field throughout, because Broncos defeated both NE and CIN at home. NE have home field over CIN. KC wins, they go to HOU, lose, I'm not sure. They'd be tied with PIT. But they did not play head to head. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 756 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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