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 126 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Nov-10-09    Travis Bickle: Hey JB here's a short clip of Dan Hampton. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCPW... Nov-10-09    Travis Bickle: <Jim Bartle> Check out this clip of Walter Payton's daughter interviewing Steve 'Mongo McMichael especially at the 1:34 mark. ; P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1aE... Nov-10-09    Deus Ex Alekhina: Back in the early 60's, the Detroit Lions actually won a few games, & usually they were low-scoring smash-mouth affairs. Alex Karras, who was in George Plimpton's "Paper Lion" & "Blazing Saddles" had very bad eyesight (I believe he wore glasses in Paper Lion). One game against the Bears was really brutal, Alex left one of the Bears motionless on the field. As he walked off the field, Alex asked one of his teammates "Who was that crud?" "That was your brother Ted!" was the reply. Ted Karras, his brother, played for the Bears. Oops. Nov-10-09    Jim Bartle: Alex Karras tells some funny stories (his wild inventions) in "Paper Lion," but he didn't play for the Lions that year. He was suspended for gambling. Nov-12-09    Jim Bartle: PB, last night Jon Stewart had a little fun with UC Santa Cruz offering a position as "Grateful Dead archivist" and the requirement that applicants have a Masters in archive management. I assume this is a serious academic profession, somewhat related to library science. Right? Nov-12-09    playground player: <Jim Bartle> The only thing serious about the academic world is the money. Nov-12-09    Jim Bartle: What you earn or what you pay? The GD archivist job pays $68,000. Nov-12-09    Phony Benoni: <JB> Quite serious, and one of the growing specialities in the field. I suspect this is because we have a lot more history than we used to. Rock music and its spin-offs are becoming a respected field of acadmeic study. There are already people who have gotten Ph.Ds for dissertations on Rap Music. The incredibly detailed articles in Wikipedia are one manifestation of this. For instance, here's the Grateful Dead article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratef... Nov-12-09    Jim Bartle: I also know if you are the archivist at UC Santa Cruz you will have an army of Deadheads evaluating your every move. Plus the amount of live recordings they have (in high-quality sound, though often bootlegged) is amazing, enough to fill up iTunes channels with seemingly no repeats. The GD also has a number of people who do shows and write about their history. Nov-12-09    A.G. Argent: Were either of you guys ever actually Dead fans? I sure as hell wasn't. I saw them once at a small rock festival back in the late 60's when they were 10 hours late and after lengthy set up and sound check all at three in the morning and then playing a tune or two, I felt a decided urge to go back to my tent and sleeping bag. Obviously not optimum conditions for them as musicians, granted, but still....they were bloody awful. And even if that was a bit of a fluke situation, any and all Dead music I've heard since still kinda makes me want to go back to sleep. Never did and never will understand the Dead thing. And, by the way, it's nice to come here as some sort of sanctuary to get away from the maelstrom over at the Cafe. I do not DARE pipe into that business. Nov-12-09    Jim Bartle: I most definitely was. Saw them maybe 40 times between 1969 and 1974, all in the Bay Area,never paid more than $4. Many times were at very informal venues with just a few hundred people in attendance, so it was easy to get to know some of the people in the band. I never saw anything like the situation you mentioned. They played on time, and for a long time,and with an excellent sound system. The only exception was the night before Altamont, when they played at Fillmore West, as flat as could be, and spent half the time giving instructions for going to the concert the next day. Concerning the Cafe, I just put up a little joke from today's news, see if anybody notices (among Americans, that is). Nov-12-09    Phony Benoni: I was the perfect age to be part of the Woodstock generation, but never came close. Group activities are not my thing. If I had ever gone to a rock concert, my instinct would have been to sit quietly in my chair, listening to the music. All the yelling and screaming would have been most unpleasant. Yes, I was meant for a library caareer. Nov-12-09    Jim Bartle: Chair? Not at the rock concerts I went to. Nov-13-09    Phony Benoni: See how much I know about it! Nov-13-09    Travis Bickle: Here's the only athlete that has the guts to say whats wrong with The Chicago Bears, and he spoke his mind even when he played for them! Listen at 1:51 of this video clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfZh... Nov-13-09    Jim Bartle: Travis, who was Dennis Jett? I'm surprised in these interviews they don't mention Walter Payton much. They're talking with his daughter. Nov-13-09    Travis Bickle: <Jim Bartle> jim McMahon was talking about slot reciever & punt returner Dennis Gentry an unsung hero for The Bears. Plus McMahon is so laid back he probably forgot who Peyton was LOL and seen Gentry right next to him. Here's Buddy Ryan who mentions Wally. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUoh... Nov-13-09    keypusher: Re dissecting the Grateful Dead: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/a... A.G. Argent, something for you on the same subject: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=... <And, by the way, it's nice to come here as some sort of sanctuary to get away from the maelstrom over at the Cafe.> Amen. Glad you don't shut down when baseball season is over, <PB>. :-) Nov-13-09    Jim Bartle: No way (!) am I above a level two, according to the NY Times. However the best show ever was New Years Eve, 1970-1971, Winterland SF. Nov-13-09    keypusher: <Jim Bartle> Seeing the Dead 40 times has got to be worth something! I bought one Grateful Dead album when I was a kid but didn't like it. Not loud or fast enough for my younger self. But every once in a while I rent a car with satellite radio, and Sirius has a channel devoted to the Grateful Dead (hell, they've even got a channel for Jimmy Buffet). Anyway, recently I heard a 1970 recording of "Turn on Your Lovelight" with Pigpen on lead vocals and I must say, it rocked. The band had played or 20 minutes or so when I reached my destination and they were still going strong. Can't imagine being there live for that kind of performance. Nov-13-09    Jim Bartle: The Grateful Dead played so much around the Bay Area during that time that it simply wasn't a big deal to go hear them. And often there weren't that many people, so some of the guys would say hello and talk for with us a while when other bands were playing. Very different time. Funniest time was when they played at my high school's rival (Campolindo) in 1969. The place was packed but was not jumping. The high school kids wanted harder, more straightforward rock. Anyway, at midnight all the lights came on and all the high school kids poured out of the gym. The band, playing Lovelight, went back to the beginning and just kept on playing for another half hour, in bright light and in front of about twenty people. I sometimes listen to them on iTunes, which has two channels devoted to them. Never a studio song, always a live recording with the date carefully noted. (Not the venue, though.) Nov-13-09    Jim Bartle: For just one nice little bit of their guitar playing, listen to the last two minutes of this starting at about 3:10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESyk... By the way, the Senate Deadhead caucus now has two members: Leahy and Franken. Nov-13-09    A.G. Argent: Thanks, KPusher, that's pretty funny. And sorry, Jim, I didn't know. About your DeadHeadedness, I mean. Wasn't wanting to sound mean or nuthin'. At a restaurant I tended bar at in Seattle back in the early 90's, there was a young waiter, 22 or so, who professed to have been to 100 Dead concerts all over the western US with a lot of them being in Eugene. 100 shows! By the time he was 22! And I believed him. Nov-13-09    Jim Bartle: Listen, I went to concerts within an hour or so of my home. I didn't follow them around the country or go to Cairo with them. Nov-14-09    playground player: I don't think I've ever heard a Grateful Dead song. Wish I could say the same for a great many other performers! Amazing, the things you can get a college degree in, these days. I'll bet my father would've been really happy, working his butt off at the Ford plant, so I could get a degree in Women's Studies. Or Rock Studies. (As it was, he wasn't all that happy about my majoring in Political Science.) I fail to see how it is an asset to any civilization to have people staying in school until they're 30 or 40 years old, getting advanced degrees in Spider Man or whatever, not bearing and raising children, not producing anything that anybody else would want to buy, etc. Oh, never mind! What's William "the Fridge" Perry doing, these days? Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 126 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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