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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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Aug-16-16		WannaBe: BoSox went from a team no-hit bid, to a 3-3 tie in a blink of an eye. Gotta love baseball.

Aug-16-16		Phony Benoni: You'd never get away that minimum height strike zone. The ACLU would be all over it in a second There is a theory that an average chess player, if given the right to move twice in a row at any point during the game, could defeat a grandmaster. Well, maybe. You'd have to be patient about using the extra move. But would having a guaranteed walk be enough compensation for having a roster with one player short? Wait, make that with one player less. Maybe they could instead rule that yo can no loner pinch-run for a pinch-hitter. I can see it now. Batter clears the bases with a triple -- except that Gaedel gets forced out at second.

Aug-16-16		saffuna: <But would having a guaranteed walk be enough compensation for having a roster with one player short? Wait, make that with one player less.> A guarantee of getting a player on base at a time of your choosing in the game? Absolutely worth a roster spot. Of course then you need to use another bench player as a pinch runner, which makes it tougher.

Aug-16-16		WannaBe: If you are Bochy, you'd put in a pitcher to pinch-run after that BB. I'm gonna take photos of the new G. Perry statue tomorrow. My buddy Steve and I will be there plenty early (90 minutes) and I'll put it up on Shutterfly for everyone. =)

Aug-16-16		Phony Benoni: Won't need much maintenance on the Gaylord Perry statue. Nothing will stick to it.

Aug-17-16		Phony Benoni: How to Beat a Bartman: http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/647926...

Aug-17-16		saffuna: Doolittle reveals some little-known stats the A's keep: BDP (beard dependent pitching) WPA/3+C (win probability added with three-plus catchers in the lineup) LOH-Wins (length of hair wins) rfFSR (right field fan scouting report) wOPS (weighted overhead press) RobertsBABIP HR/FB (homers by a fullback) <Others argue there are intangibles that cannot be quantified. Or they say the formulas are becoming too complicated for people who didn't ace calculus and don't know the mathematical order of operations or how to use a graphing calculator. Sabermetrics might not tell the whole story, but the numbers never lie. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm about to be shoved into my locker.> http://www.espn.com/blog/buster-oln...

Aug-17-16		Penguincw: Woo, Jays down 6 runs (actually 5), go into a rain delay, score 12 unanswered runs to win it. Glad the rain delay didn't cause the game to be over and a Yankees win. In other news, Ichiro, prior to yesterday, had a hit in every current MLB stadium except for CIN - he just got a hit there last night. Have fun at the game <WannaBe>! Go Pirates! ;)

Aug-17-16		saffuna: What is this strategy to take out a starting pitcher who is pitching well after a rain delay? Yankees took out Pineda after a rain delay, after going five and giving up no runs. Looks like it cost them the game.

Aug-17-16		Phony Benoni: Probably a matter of "stiffening up", though I don't know the exact physical mechanism involved. But it seems a real concern, not just a cliché. You'll se pitches taking warm-up tosses during a replay or an injury time-out. And I've seen pitchers come out after their team scored a lot of runs and they were unable to "loosen up" again.

Aug-17-16		saffuna: Could be. But it seems to happen all too often. I've seen it done if the pitcher has only thrown an inning or two, and then they start him again the next day. That makes some sense.

Aug-17-16		Penguincw: Probably. A lot of pitchers tend to have "routines" or whatever, and all these delays mess up their timing. I guess this also explains why (unless it's deep in extra innings), relief pitchers tend to pitch no more than an inning. < I've seen it done if the pitcher has only thrown an inning or two, and then they start him again the next day. That makes some sense. > A more extreme example was Greinke in 2012 (when he was with the Brewers). He started on Jul/07, and got ejected after 4 pitches because he threw the ball on the ground in frustration following a close play at first. The next day, he lasted just 3 innings, giving up 3 runs. He got the ball again the next game (Jul/13, after the ASG), lasting 5 innings, giving up 5 ER. So in a matter of 7 days, he threw 8 IP, and gave up 9 runs (1 unearned).

Aug-17-16		Penguincw: Looks like MLB in the future could have robotic umpires: http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/531579... My opinion: any calls not made at the plate (ex. safe/out, except at the plate, fair/foul, etc.) are easy to determine (if an umpire gets it wrong, just go on instant replay). Having robotic umpires there probably won't make much of a difference. However: The HP umpire has the hardest job out there, having to call balls and strikes, among other things (ex. HBP, foul tips, etc.) These also seem to be very difficult to call sometimes (no guarantee a robot would fare any better than a human). I think most people would like the calls to be right, but they don't mind a blown call here or there. FTR: Umpires in video games aren't that much better, although I believe it's a glitch in a game (ex. tag isn't even applied yet the runner is out). A few years ago, I did envision a future with <virtual> umpires. So say a ball lands fair, the virtual umpire could just stick his arm out to indicate fair. The thing with virtual umpires, unlike robotic, the umpire doesn't have to move out of the way, as the ball can just go right through it.

Aug-17-16		saffuna: It wouldn't be hard to have a machine which indicates whether a ball was in the strike zone. But people won't go for that. We like the human, somewhat inconsistent decision making.

Aug-17-16		WannaBe: Boy, did the Giants made it an interesting 9th. Down 2 runs, got bases loaded with no outs and scored one. Lost the game 6-5. All of Pittsburgh's run were scored in one inning.

Aug-17-16		Phony Benoni: Sumthin' good happening around here, but it won't last. Now with Damnable Anibal pitching. You see, Anibal Sanchez is one of those real estate pitchers. If his location is good, he looks great and gets a lot of strikeouts. Bad location, and the ball covers a lot of real estate.

Aug-17-16		WannaBe: OK, I think this album is marked as public: https://wannabecg.shutterfly.com/pi... If you can't see the pictures, please let me know. Not featured are McCovey and Mays. Apparently in order to have a statue, you have to be in the HoF. (According to my friend who works for SF Giants).

Aug-17-16		saffuna: The Perry one doesn't look like him at all. But the Marichal is great.

Aug-17-16		WannaBe: Latest projection/prediction: http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...

Aug-17-16		WannaBe: <saffuna: The Perry one doesn't look like him at all. But the Marichal is great.> I wouldn't know, it was just a bit before my times. (One of these days, when I go into San Francisco Chinatown early 7AM in the morning to get dim-sum. I'm gonna pull my car over, sneak a travel size tube of Vaseline in that glove of Perry. =)

Aug-18-16		saffuna: Time cover of Marichal in 1966: http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazin...

Aug-18-16		WannaBe: <saffuna> I have seen the pitching 'style' of Marichal, it's Perry that I don't know. Did the statue (face?) not look like him? I have no idea. His playing days was before my times. In other news, Red Sox GM (ex-Detroit GM) Dombrowski complaint of early Thursday game starting time: http://www.theoaklandpress.com/spor...

Aug-18-16		WannaBe: I was going to ask the question: "Why didn't Dombrowski ask Baltimore to move the game time up?" Then I remembered, the game was on ESPN last night, so TV (money) made the schedule un-move-able. Ironically, it was rain-shortened to just six innings. Still don't know when the game was officially called. And when BoSox eventually got to Detroit.

Aug-18-16		saffuna: Perry's face on the statue just looks generic, doesn't look much like him at all.

Aug-18-16		saffuna: I think teams should not be required to play a day game after playing a night game in a different city. It's hard to imagine how these teams play well at all with all the travel and so few days off.

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