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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 18635 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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Feb-09-22		Z free or die: I kinda hoped <Tab> (or someone) had archived all of these valuable collections on <Wayback>. Maybe the web-crawlers already did so, independent of human intention?

Mar-02-22		MissScarlett: You put today's <GOTD> in the 2021 collection: Game Collection: Game of the Day 2021

Mar-03-22		Phony Benoni: <MissScarlett>. Got it. Thanks.

Mar-03-22		Z free or die: Whew, I thought the little <Missy> was fingering me. Oh, and to answer my previous question - no, not all of the GotD's have been archived (uh-oh!). Game Collection: Game of the Day 2004 <Wayback Machine has not archived that URL. This page is available on the web! Help make the Wayback Machine more complete! <Save this url in the Wayback Machine> Click here to search for all archived pages under https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che...> That one example has just now been archived by yours truly. .

Mar-03-22		Z free or die: <Phony> if you want to fatten out your 2004 collection a little (as you requested) you can use Wayback for <chessgames.com>. It's hit-or-miss, but it does give a few games you maybe missed: E.g. 2002-01-26 (Sat) Petrosian vs Pachman, 1961 <A Real Move Problem> ... 2004-03-25 (Thu) F Baumbach vs Berliner, 2001 <Katzenjammer> 2004-04-03 (Sat) Krasenkow vs Shabalov, 1987 <The Fearless Kings> etc. I was thinking that maybe you could enlist <steve>'s help to go through the DB, since some of GotD's are actually tagged as such somehow - but it seems inconsistent. E.g. of the three games give above, only the first has some text indicating it was a GotD. I was also thinking you might be able to get some mileage out of <CG>'s own GotD index page, but that only goes back to Dec 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/2004120... Don't forget, if and when copying the old game links, to change the http to https. .

Mar-03-22		Phony Benoni: <Z free or die> Let me explain a bit how the collections came about. As you know, the site first came into existence around 2002. I didn't show up until 2006, and didn't start compiling the collections until 2009. This was when the mechanism for member submission of puns (including the Pun Voting Booth) was put into place. I quickly noticed many submissions of previously used puns, and thought that general lists of GOTDs and puns would be useful. The WayBack Machine was one of the tools I used to help fill in the earlier years. Eventually, I learned that GOTDs were used only sporadically before 2004, and it didn't seem worth the effort to go back earlier. I suppose the results would be different today, but at this time I'm not interested in working on it. There are just too many other projects I'm working on and need to leave unfinished.

Mar-26-22		jessicafischerqueen: <Phony Benoni> Luckily, <z> came up with a workaround so that I was able to transfer your results table to the new <"blue ink TID event page the admins thought would be a good idea even though it would erase 20 years of hard work by Phony Benoni and steal credit for publishing games he found and published without offering any acknowledgement."> Here is a shorter title for this event, though less informative: 67th US Open (1966) If you have time, maybe check to see if I retrieved all of the information from Game Collection: US Open 1966, Seattle ? I added a brief paragraph at the end of your intro summarizing the main results. Also, I added a link to the original games collection. at the top of the page. If you see anything I missed, or screwed up, just let me know and I will fix it. I put a "kibbutzing komment" in the kibbutz box of the new event page about how the game scores were- or perhaps were not- collected. To be fairer to cg.com than I have been, one of the advantages of these "blue ink" admin (stolen) collections is that folks can kibbutz on them.

Mar-27-22		Phony Benoni: <jfq> Thank you. Yes, the kibitzing feature is very important and is a good reason to create these pages. The link back to the original collection is very important. Numerous times, I have needed to access a number of games from one tournament. Using the TID make this difficult because of the 100 game per page limit The original collection, with all the games on one page, is much easier to use in this case.

Apr-05-22		raymondhow: Hello PB, I read that you are interested in games from US Opens of whatever quality. Well I played 1981 in Palo Alto, scored 6 points out of 12 and still have my score sheets. Would you want the games, or just the scores?

Apr-05-22		Phony Benoni: <raymondhow> Thank you. Yes, I would be interested in any games you have. I don't need the scores themselves if you can provide the moves of the games in some other format. I actually have a crosstable from that event, and think I found you at #337. Lost to Jim McIlrath in the first round, but wound up gaining 45 rating points (1750-1795), so not a bad performance!

Apr-05-22		raymondhow: Thanks, yes I felt pretty good about my performance. So would you want the games in PGN format? How should I get them to you?

Apr-05-22		Phony Benoni: <raymondhow> PGN would be just fine. You can either post them here or send me an e-mal. I'll provide you an e-mail address if you prefer the latter.

Apr-05-22		raymondhow: Probably easier to email them. Can you recommend an online PGN editor? I don't mind entering the scores and going over the games...

Apr-05-22		Phony Benoni: I have a ChessBase proram installed on my comuter, and have never used an online PGN editor. But let me ask around. If you've made up a text file with the scores of the games, that will work; I have the rest of the necessary data. If not, it will b easier to use a PGN editor, so let's see if I can get a response here.

Apr-05-22		MissScarlett: I use this: http://www.wmlsoftware.com/chesspad...

Apr-05-22		Z free or die: <Phony> Not to be a one-note, but <SCID> is my standard recommendation. Full featured, and free. And easy enough to use for entering a game by playing it on the board: http://scid.sourceforge.net/ Also - available on Windows, Linux and Mac (unlike wmlsoftware I think, though I'd like to try it next time I'm on Windows).

Apr-05-22		raymondhow: Thanks Scarlett. I found the chess.com editor works pretty well. PB, I have a game ready to email you, let me know the address.

Apr-06-22		raymondhow: Thanks, sent you the first game..

Apr-14-22		Deus Ex Alekhina: Hey David, I seem to remember someone writing about a female spectator who fainted at chess tournaments in the 1920's, falling on the players. Can you direct me to any information here or on the internet about that? Thanks.

Apr-14-22		Phony Benoni: <DEA> You're probably remembering this post: Nimzowitsch vs H Weenink, 1930 (kibitz #2) You made a coent later on the page.

Apr-23-22		Penguincw: Hi <Phony Benoni>. Hope you're doing well. In lieu of an event that happened today, flashback: (Phony Benoni chessforum (kibitz #22168)) Well <PB>, he did it! He dealt with some injuries, but he did a lot of DHing, and he joins the 3K club. Quite happy myself that I made a prediction from 2017, and it finally came true. (congrats to <Saffuna> too for calling it)

Apr-24-22		Phony Benoni: <Penguincw> Yes, I had my doubts about Cabrera, and maybe I should stop maing predictions about him! Heard an interesting tidbit: Cabrera is the fourth player to get his 300th hit against the Rockies, the others being Rickey Henderson, craig Biggio, and Ichiro Suzuki.

May-07-22		MissScarlett: R Scrivener vs J Winter, 1926, a new game from Game Collection: US Open 1926, Chicago = 27th Western Champ. The score is a bit spotty in places, so you might want to check it.

May-08-22		Phony Benoni: <MissScarlett> Thanks. I see the score problems, but it looks like you've resolved those. The one thing I would point out is that the Source date should be 1926.09.19, not 1926.09.16.

May-08-22		MissScarlett: Fixed.

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