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 821 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Aug-13-16    Phony Benoni: Tigers putting on a clinic tonight. After five innings they they eleven hits -- and one run. Aug-14-16    Penguincw: Looks like Tigers end up leaving 13 on base, but still win. FTR: The record in a 9 inning game is 20: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/rec.... I imagine the most possible in a 9 inning game is 27. Aug-14-16    saffuna: <I imagine the most possible in a 9 inning game is 27.> How did you figure that out? Aug-14-16    saffuna: OK, guilty parties in the 20 LOB game: Turley (pitcher) with bases loaded. Scored 3 so no choking. Elston Howard, 2 on. Turley, Lumpe, Slaughter, 2 on. Skowron, Howard (2 on), Noren (3 on). Lumpe, 3 on. Coleman 2 on. Mantle, Siebern, 2 on. Carroll, Coleman, Wilson 2 on. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Aug-14-16    Phony Benoni: Unless you're playing the 1920s Dodgers, who could leave three men on any particular base. Aug-14-16    Phony Benoni: Time of game: 3:23.Do you want to imagine how long it would take the Yankees and Red Sox to play that game today? Aug-14-16    saffuna: "The Dodgers have three men on base!" "Which base?" Aug-14-16    Penguincw: Steven Matz'(s) no-hit bid vs. the only team that hasn't gotten a no-hitter yet (SD) gone after 7.1 IP (he also had a streak of 0.1 IP no-hit last time out). Aug-14-16    WannaBe: That no-no is no-more. Aug-14-16    Penguincw: Another streak that just ended: minor league 50 game hitting streak: http://m.mlb.com/news/article/19204.... He did have a walk, so his on-base percentage streak is 51 games. Aug-14-16    WannaBe: My "Did Not Get On-Base" (DNGoB) is still perfect. 1.00000 =)) Aug-14-16    WannaBe: Going to the PIT/SF Wednesday (day) game, will take pictures of the new G. Perry statue at Second & King St. When they unveiled the statue Saturday, Perry had the sense of humour, and left Vaselines under the seats. See paragraph two: http://www.sfgate.com/giants/articl... Aug-14-16    saffuna: Brilliant! Aug-15-16    OhioChessFan: <Monty Stratton pitched 'sever' years in the minors after losing a leg?> <I must be better than I thought to come up with that without even trying.> I'm sure it was just an offhand comment. Aug-15-16    WannaBe: I see, that today's BOS/CLE game is a make up from season-opening series. Cleveland still have two more make up games. Another one at home with Boston (not yet scheduled) and one at ChiSox (possibly scheduled, since Indians play at Chicago two more times). Be interesting if at the end of season MLB scrambles to get the game(s) made up because of standings. Aug-15-16    WannaBe: Inclement weather may affect KC/DET game tonight. 6 to 8 inches of snow expected. Aug-16-16    saffuna: Nice story at espn by Sean Dolittle on the best bullpens in the majors. Not the pitchers, the physical bullpens. http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/... Aug-16-16    WannaBe: <saffuna: Nice story at espn ...> From that link/article: <"Look! There's a left-handed one! Those are very rare." "Look at that one's stupid red beard."> Bwahahahah!!! Never knew he have such a cool sense of humour. (S. Doolittle is a red-headed lefty reliever, currently on the 15-day DL) Aug-16-16    WannaBe: <Darren Rovell ESPN Senior Writer New at Ford Field: The Lions are selling Big Blue Donut, which is the size of four normal donuts, for $15> Qtr 1: 0 Qtr 2: 0 Qtr 3: 0 Qtr 4: 0 I got yer four donuts... Aug-16-16    Shams: <WannaBe> Zing! Aug-16-16    perfidious: Two milestones this season for Bartolo Colon--first he becomes the oldest player to hit his first career dinger, then last night, draws his first career walk: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/w... Aug-16-16    WannaBe: By the time Colon reached first base, Bolt was already at home plate taking selfies with the Ump and Catcher! Aug-16-16    Penguincw: < perfidious: Two milestones this season for Bartolo Colon--first he becomes the oldest player to hit his first career dinger, then last night, draws his first career walk: > I decided to investigate who is the next oldest active pitcher without a walk (I'm going to ignore position players, for an obvious reason). R.A. Dickey has had a BB before (4 in fact), but so has <relief> pitcher Koji Uehara (once). Joel Peralta is technically active (with 4 IP this year), so he's the next one. Matt Thorton and Jason Grilli are next in line. Among active SP, I couldn't find a list, but it's not Buehrle, Sabathia, Felix Hernandez, Peavy, Lackey, Hamels, Greinke, Shields or Kershaw. Maybe Verlander? Aug-16-16    saffuna: Players with most walks in every ML at bat? Start with Eddie Gaedel, are there more? Actually Gaedel would be a valuable guy to have. Someone to send up and get a walk every time. But the rule would soon be changed, putting a minimum height of the strike zone at 24 inches or whatever. Aug-16-16    WannaBe: What baseball needs is more statistic categories. Ever heard of "Baserunning Runs Above Average"? http://www.espn.com/blog/sweetspot/... As you can see, two of the top five teams are not in play-off contention, heck, SD's general manager pretty much traded away the whole team. And you'll also see that two of the bottom five teams are also not in contention, the other 3 are. What does this stat really tell us? Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 821 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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