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 893 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-08-18    Tabanus: Well the games are not in yet. By that time, I'd probably have forgot about them, so I put a reminder in my forum header. Have patience. Apr-08-18    WannaBe: Still early, only 4th inning, keep an eye on that OAK/LAA game. Apr-08-18    WannaBe: Nevermind. Base hit, top 7th... Apr-08-18    Penguincw: And add a walk. In other news, Dodgers blow another lead. May-27-18    MissScarlett: Something wrong with your scoring for Maroczy here: Game Collection: Ostend 1906 Results of stage 5 have Maroczy with 20 points, but the complete crosstable totals 21. But tot up the individual results therein and its only 18 points. May-27-18    Phony Benoni: <Miss Scarlett> Maroczy's total has been changed to the correct 20 points. The two missing points were his Stage 5 wins over Janowski and Perlis. I had inadvertently entered each as a loss for both players. Thans for your help. Let me know if you spot anything else. I'll do a final clean-up once the games get in. May-28-18    Telemus: <Phony Benoni> There is a score-sheet of a game Larsen vs Snyder in the next semiannual auction at Klittich-Pfannkuch (Brunswick, Germany), see # 701 on this page http://www.klittich-pfankuch.de/auk... The game was played in round 2 on 12 August (no year given). It fits into your Game Collection: US Open 1968, Aspen. Here the PGN: [Event "69th US Open"] [Site "Aspen, CO USA"] [Date "1968.08.12"] [Round "2"] [White "Larsen, Bent"] [Black "Snyder, Ron"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "E90"] [PlyCount "47"] 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. d4 O-O 6. h3 e5 7. d5 Nbd7 8. Bg5 h6 9. Be3 Qe7 10. g4 Nc5 11. Qc2 Ne8 12. Rg1 Kh7 13. O-O-O f5 14. exf5 gxf5 15. g5 h5 16. Nh4 e4 17. Qe2 Bxc3 18. Qxh5+ Kg8 19. bxc3 Qh7 20. Qxh7+ Kxh7 21. Ng2 Ng7 22. Nf4 Bd7 23. h4 Ba4 24. Re1 1-0 May-28-18    Phony Benoni: <Telemus> thanks for the game, and in particular or transcribing the score. That saved me much grief. May-29-18    MissScarlett: I see you have collections for <ACB> 1904 and 1905. Have any of these games been submitted? May-29-18    Phony Benoni: <MissScarlett> Not as yet. With several hundred games int he queue right now, I'm not really motivated to do so at this time. Jun-08-18    Tabanus: <PB> Abraham Tabash for US Open 1968. Jun-08-18    Phony Benoni: <Tabanus> Updated. Thanks. Jun-24-18    Tabanus: <PB> Let me know if you are unhappy with my changes to Agency International (1997). You can also edit it yourself. Jun-24-18    Phony Benoni: <tabanus> It looks fine. Thank you. Looks like the Ostend 1906 games are in. Jun-25-18    offramp: Ostend 1906. The Holy Grail. Jun-25-18    WannaBe: Interesting starting game time today, do you know why OAK v DET is starting at mid-afternoon on a Monday? Jun-25-18    Phony Benoni: Annual fireworks display in Downtown Detroit tonight, celebrating the Independence Days of US and Canada.. Normally draws about a half-million people. It's a big one. I live maybe ten miles agaw and can still catch glimpses of it. Without a television. Jun-26-18    Travis Bickle: Hey Mr Benoni, It must be a year of Sunday's since we last chatted.. My Cubs are ok.. Lack of quality pitching especially in the bullpen & the hitting is off & on.. How's them Tigers doing? Jun-26-18    Phony Benoni: Tigers aren't going anywhere but down, Travis. They're in a rebuilding mode with a bunch of kids. And now Miguel Cabrera's year -- and possibly career --- is over due to a ruptured bicep muscle. They mde it interesting for a while, but reality is setting in. Anxiously awaiting the start of football season. That's hwo bad it's gotten. Jul-16-18    Stonehenge: <PB> This game is not from the US Open but from the World Open: G Zaichik vs Shabalov, 1993 Jul-16-18    Phony Benoni: <Stonehenge> Thanks for checking, but this appears to be from the US Open. The game is printed in the round 4 bulletin from the US Open. In addition, here is the USCF crosstable from the World Open. #4 Shabalob and #16 Zaitchik did not meet. http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain... Jul-16-18    Stonehenge: OK, you are the boss :) I've changed it back to 94th US Open. Jul-17-18    Phony Benoni: <Stonehenge> Thanks. By the way, I haven't done detailed checking on most years since 1977, so if you find any other suspicious games please let me know. Jul-17-18    Stonehenge: Oh, I don't think you saw Phony Benoni chessforum (kibitz #22484) PGN can be found here: https://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/ha... Jul-17-18    Phony Benoni: <Stonehenge> Yes, I did miss that note. My apologies. That collection was assembled long ago, and I have no idea where I got the dates They clearly wrong, however. The appears to be an anomaly in the round dates, December 27 - January 4 is only nine days for a nine-round tournament, so if there was a rest day there must also have been a day with two rounds. Brit Base has rounds 3 $ 4 on Monday, December 30, which appears to be original schedule. However, I found this report in the "London Guardian", December 31, 1935: <"According to the programme, two rounds had been arranged for to-day..."> (Meaning Monday, Dec3ebmer 30, the date appearing in the by-line.) <"...but the players in the premier tournament decided to play their fourth round games in advance yesterday.. ".> which would indicate te fourth round was actually played on December 29, efore the third round on December 30. There are other newspaper reports which also indicate games were played on the rest day. I can investigate further if it seems necessary. I have no idea why they played the fourth round early instead of the third, unless they wanted to make life difficult for historians. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 893 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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