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 123 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Nov-04-09    suenteus po 147: <Phony Benoni> I know I said I'd have one of these a day, but reconstructing each crosstable is kiling me: Game Collection: Hastings 1930/31 Nov-04-09    technical draw: "I thank the admins here for making this site necessary"....Yogi Nov-04-09    suenteus po 147: <Phony Benoni> I have a link here that has <most> of the crosstables for all of the Hastings tournaments, but not all: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/eric.de... As you can see, I would need crosstables generated only for 1931/32, 1947/48, 1952/53, and 1958/59. Nov-04-09    YouRang: <MANAGUA, Nicaragua – Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Vicente Padilla is recovering from a bullet wound in his leg after a target shooting instructor accidentally shot him.> Maybe taking shooting lessons from Dick Cheney wasn't such a good idea. Nov-04-09    Jim Bartle: Actually it was Claudine Longet. Nov-04-09    Jim Bartle: From Sports Illustrated: "In Game 4, for instance, the Yankees started the highest-paid pitcher in baseball (CC Sabathia), ended it with the highest-paid closer (Rivera), jumped in front with a run by the highest-paid shortstop (Jeter) and salted the game away in the ninth when the highest-paid catcher (Posada) drove in the highest-paid first baseman (Mark Teixeira) and baseball's highest-paid player (Rodriguez)." Nov-04-09    Travis Bickle: Phony I think Jim Bartle writes for Sports Illustrated already! ; P Nov-04-09    Travis Bickle: Something Yogi could have said. "It aint over til the fat lady sings, unless she goes on a diet". ; P Nov-04-09    Jim Bartle: That's far too wordy for Yogi. In truth, however dumb his sayings appear to be, it's very difficult to make one up yourself. Nov-05-09    technical draw: Wouldn't you know it. I took a "nap" at 6 :00 pm and woke up at 1:30 am, so I missed the series clincher. That's OK, I guess, since I can still say: YANKEES WIN, YANKEES WIN!!. Nov-05-09    Jim Bartle: Here's a quick summary then, TD: Matsui hits two-run homer; Matsui hits bases loaded single; Matsui hits two-run double. You're welcome. And since I'm such a good sport, here's an obnoxious call of a Yankee win (not from tonight): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRj1... Nov-05-09    technical draw: Thanks for that summary Jim. Matsui was the Man last night. BTW that clip is the Sterling shake. Here's one where you can see him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5hK... Nov-05-09    technical draw: BTW the saying, It ain't over til the fat lady sings, although attributed to a basketball announcer probably has it's origins in Wagner's opera "Der Ring Des Nibelungen". A monster of an opera consisting of four parts: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Die Götterdämerung. In the finale the soprano singing the part Brünhhilde is fat and wearing viking horns. Thus the opera finally ends when the "fat" lady sings (and also why in cartoons the sopranos always wear viking horns) Nov-05-09    Jim Bartle: I didn't know it was that specific. I thought it just referred to opera in general, where the soprano usually sings a climactic aria near the end, and most sopranos are (or used to be) fat. As a kid we had a book of cartoons by one of the guys from the New Yorker, named Fischer, which had a lot of those types of cartoons. http://www.cartoonbank.com/1989/But... Nov-05-09    Phony Benoni: Wikipedia, of course, has something to say about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_ain... This coincides with a vague memory that the saying was a relatively recent invention. The "fat lady" of opera is a long-standing joke, used by classic comedians such as Groucho Marx and Bugs Bunny. Nov-05-09    technical draw: Can you imagine a kid in the audience of Götterdämerung (which could run more than six hours!) yelling to his mom: When is this going to be OVER?" "Shut up, it ain't over til the fat lady sings!" (The whole Nibelungen Ring can run upwards of 20 hours and they have produced some with all four parts running consecutively) Talk about numb bums!) Nov-05-09    suenteus po 147: <Talk about numb bums!> And needled lungs! Nov-05-09    technical draw: Here is a 7 minute sample of Das Rheingold. Now let me know if you can take 20 hours of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJMb... Nov-05-09    Phony Benoni: I used to have the entire Ring cycle on a boxed set of twenty 33 1/3 rpm records. It could have been worse. It might have been on 45s. I think I did play the entire thing through once, but didn't follow along very carefully. Something about some woman who got her dam' ring, wasn't it? Nov-05-09    technical draw: <Phony> It's about vikings, Gotterdamerung!! Nov-05-09    Phony Benoni: <td> Aren't they the team with Siegfried Favre? Nov-05-09    Jim Bartle: Yes, it's about his defection from the other side. Nov-05-09    technical draw: Nein! Nein! Nein! Du bist ein dummkoft! Wir haben Siegfried auf Der Niebelungen Ring und du spricht auf der Americanicher fussballspieler? Nov-05-09    Nietzowitsch: Is Wagner actually a man? Is he not rather a disease? Everything he touches falls ill; he has made music sick. Nov-05-09    Phony Benoni: Answer: 9W Question: Herr Wagner, do you spell your last name with a "V"? Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 123 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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