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 111 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-10-09    technical draw: <The best hitting team of all time? Right here:> Before my time. But I saw the awesome Big Red machine in the 70's. Oct-11-09    technical draw: Well the Yankees travel to the Minnesota tundra to clinch a spot in the ALCS. They might as well win tonight and get it over with since they're going to win anyway. Oct-11-09    Phony Benoni: All in favor of making this a <Yankees Free Zone> with a $20 fine for violators, say "AYE"! Oct-11-09    playground player: <Jim Bartle> Minor correction: Bill Haller was an AL umpire, his brother Tom was the traded-away Giants catcher. You may remember Earl Weaver in 1973 (I think--maybe it was '72 or '74) demanding that Bill recuse himself from umpiring down the stretch because the Orioles and the Tigers were in a pennant race and Tom was playing for the Tigers. Earl certainly had a gift for endearing himself. <Phony Benoni> Great post on the 1930 Phillies! Opposing hitters sure had a fine time with their pitching staff. But it's hard to nail down the best-hitting team of all time. One is tempted to throw out seasons like 1930 and 1987, when they monkeyed with the baseball and batting averages and home runs were inflated everywhere. I'd like to mention a few teams that deserve consideration: 1947 NY Giants (200+ home runs, in an era when that was pretty much unique); 1950 Red Sox (Williams, Walt Dropo, Vern Stephens, Billy Goodman all having monster years), 1959 Washington Senators (Killebrew, Lemon, Allison, Sievers--and still last in the AL)... I disregard the whole Steroid Era. Oct-11-09    technical draw: <All in favor of making this a <Yankees Free Zone> with a $20 fine for violators, say "AYE"!> Aye! I agree this forum should show all Yankees games free! Oct-11-09    Phony Benoni: <playground player> You probably have to disregard the mid-1890s after the pitching mound was moved back from 50' to 60' 6" and team totals like this were not unusual: http://www.baseball-reference.com/t... Looking at a few of the teams, the 1950 Red Sox look hard to beat for sheer bludgeoning power: http://www.baseball-reference.com/t... And remember that Williams missed about half the seaons with an injury. Had he played full time ... Oct-11-09    Phony Benoni: And the Red Sox sink slowly in the West. Papel got bombed. Oct-11-09    technical draw: Good riddance, I hate dem Red Sox bums. Oct-11-09    hangingenprise: phony: the angels will give the yankees all they can handle including blown calls the yankees get. angles in the series! Oct-11-09    Phony Benoni: <hangingenprise> I'm sure the Angels will be tough, but I'm not putting the Yankees in there just yet. Detroit fans have learned not to disregrard the Twins too early. (1-0 Minnesota, top of the 7th) Oct-11-09    technical draw: Latino power. Back to back Rodriguez and Posada. Oct-11-09    Phony Benoni: It's looking like a postseason for an evening of the scores. Angels sweep Red Sox. Dodgers get revenge on the Cardinals. Alex Rodriguez hits, and Mariano Rivera is shaky. Oct-11-09    Phony Benoni: <td> Oh, go ahead and get your $20 worth of gloating in. Oct-12-09    technical draw: <Phony> Sorry my gloat-a-meter is broken so I don't know how much gloating to do, he he, but anyway no gloating until the world series win. Oct-12-09    playground player: <Phony Benoni> I must admit I hadn't even considered the mid-1890s! After Williams got hurt in 1950, Billy Goodman took over for him in left field and won a batting title. But I don't think his singles made up for the loss of Teddy Ballgame's homers. Oct-12-09    technical draw: For some reason chess players don't like the Yankees. I think the Yankees are a republican team and chess players lean liberal and democrat. If so which is the democrat team? Atlanta Braves? Oct-12-09    Phony Benoni: The Atlanta Braves Democrats? You've got to be kidding. They're almost as bad as the Yankees. No, you're talking one of the blue collar teams here. Cubs, White Sox, Brewers, Tigers, maybe even the Rockies. No, wait--the Rockies are Libertarians. Or maybe one of the glitzy California teams like the Dodgers. Everyone knows that all Hollywood celebrities are hopeless liberals. Oct-12-09    Phony Benoni: But that's not what I wanted to talk about. Here's the box score for what one of the oddest relief performances of all time. http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1932... A word of explanation. The Athletics were in a stretch of four consecutive doubleheaders at home in Philadelphia. However, they couldn't play Sunday baseball in Philly at the time, and scheduled this one-game series in Cleveland to take up the time. Connie Mack brought only two pitchers to Cleveland: Lew Krausse (father of the Athletic bonus phenom of the 1960s) and Rommel--who, by the way, had pitched two innings on Friday and three on Saturday. Apparently, Mack didn't like the way Krausse blew the lead in the first inning, and decided to put Rommel in immediately. After all, Rommel was a knuckleballer, so he wouldn't be bothered by pitching a little extra today. That was just a bit too much, though. Rommel didn't pitch again until August 20, and was released after the season. Some gratitude. Oct-12-09    WannaBe: Not to worry, Rommel later had some success in Africa and Europe, before he met up with Patton! Oct-12-09    WannaBe: What exactly is BFP?? And they only had 2 umpires back then? Oct-12-09    Jim Bartle: 17 innings of relief! Lew Krausse the Younger played an important off-field part in A's history. I don't remember the details, but it was Krausse's misbehavior on a team flight in 1967, the one that led to Charlie Finley firing Ken Harrelson on the spot. Of course Harrelson signed with the Red Sox and was a big part of their drive to the pennant. The arguments on that flight almost led to a team strike. In particular the players wanted announcer Monte Moore to stay away from them, as he was a notorious snitch for Finley. Oct-12-09    Phony Benoni: <WannaBe> Not sure exactly, but it's someting like "Batters Facing Pitcher". 87 is pretty good (almost ten times through the lineup), but both pitchers in this game beat it: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Oct-13-09    Jim Bartle: Joe Girardi plays chess on the field at Yankee Stadium and explains how chess is similar to his game strategy: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009... He lost the game, but with Rivera standing there, he should have brought him in. Oct-13-09    dzechiel: Wow. The Dodgers, Angels and now the Phillies had dramatic, come from behind ninth inning victories in this round of playoffs. I wonder if this portends anything for the league championships or World Series... Oct-13-09    Travis Bickle: Great Dolphins Jets MNF game tonight! Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 111 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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