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 144 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-12-10    Jim Bartle: Glanced at Pizarro's record, and noticed the Braves really didn't have any respect for their young pitchers around 1960. Only pitched Pizarro and Jay 100 innings a year (while killing Spahn and Burdette), then traded both of them for a good-field no-hit shortstop, Roy McMillan. Pizarro and Jay went on to have several good years each. Jan-12-10    technical draw: I think Pizarro, who was a pretty good hitter for a pitcher, once pinch hit a grand slam home run in the 16th or 17th inning. Maybe I'll google it to make sure. Jan-12-10    hangingenprise: phony: now that pete carroll is in seahawk land and they need a qb, what team does not, o yea the lions!!! don't, i like the qb from central michigan in the middle rounds. he look solid to me. backup qb for the lions? Jan-12-10    Phony Benoni: <td> Memory Lane! http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... I've checked through Juan Pizarro's record, and don't find any mention of him hitting a grand slam. He had a .202 lifetime average (which qualified him as a potential clean-up man on some of those White Sox teams), but he appears to have gone 0 for 7 as a pinchhitter. Maybe it was a minor league game against the Lima Incas. Jan-12-10    Phony Benoni: <hangingenprise> Lions are committed to their current backup (Drew Stanton) and might even try to get Daunte Culpepper back. But I wouldn't be shocked to see the quarterback from Central Michigan (<Dan LeFevour>) go early. CMU might only be a "mid-major", but year after year they've shown they can play with anybody and beat quite a few of them. And LeFevour appears to be a cut above other statistical machines like Andre Ware (another terrific Lions' pick). Jan-12-10    Jim Bartle: The 61 White Sox scored 765 runs, which isn't bad. The legendary 61 Yankees scored 827, more but not in another league. Whatever happened to Joey Harrington? Seemed like he was going to be a star, then all of a sudden he's gone. Jan-12-10    technical draw: <Maybe it was a minor league game against the Lima Incas.> No, it was probably the fact that I was 12 years old when I "heard" about that feat. Or maybe it was another pitcher. Thanks for that link I also now "remember" JC Martin. Jan-12-10    chancho: The pitcher I thought was a huge jinx for the Red Sox, was sinker pitcher Bob Stanley. I remember when he came in walking on the field to replace Schiraldi in game 6, that my mouth opened wide and screamed: Noooooo! Sure enough, the Sox went down in flames, and the guy who got the most blame was Buckner for the ball going through his legs. But to me, it will always be that a-ho Stanley who'll get the blame from me. I seem to remember that Stanley was also there,(in 78) when the Yanks beat the Sox at Fenway. (Dent homer) Jan-12-10    Jim Bartle: Yes, but Stanley had something like a 15-3 record in 1978. And Schiraldi was getting hammered in Game 6. A better question is why did Clemens beg out of the game after seven. Jan-12-10    Phony Benoni: Yes, it's all Stanley's fault for throwing a ground ball. If it had been a line shot, Buckner probably would have caught it. As for Joey Harrington, part of the problem was his name. I mean, quarterbacks are just not named Joey. Can you imagine Joey Namath or Joey Montana? Or even Joey Kapp? Nobody ever took him seriously, which only aggravated the facts that he had neither the arm nor the poise of an NFL quarterback. Jan-12-10    al wazir: <PB>: I don't want to keep littering P Chrz vs J Tuma, 2001 with extraneous material, but in view of your last post there I thought you might find these amusing: http://www.oddee.com/item_96156.aspx Jan-12-10    Jim Bartle: Pretty funny, but I still like the report on the murder in the bar: "Headless Body in Topless Bar" Jan-12-10    Phony Benoni: Once, while in Albert Lea, Minnesota, I spotted: "Police Shoot Man With Toy Gun". I never did find out who had the weapon. Jan-13-10    playground player: Remember Floyd Robinson? He was with the White Sox in the early 60s. He was one of those rare players with 100 RBIs in a season and 10 home runs or less. <Phony Benoni> My favorite recent headline was, "Crack Found Between Man's Buttocks." Can't remember what paper it was in. As an old headline writer myself, all I can say by way of an excuse is that you can get kind of punchy after 20 hours on the job. Jan-14-10    Phony Benoni: <playground player> Good grief, you kever know what kind of odd jobs will pop up around here! Headline writing would not be a good fit for me, as I have trouble restraining my sense of humor. Here's an example from my days as editor of "Michigan Chess". The photo we planned to used for the cover was of a fellow who had won a tournament out of nowhere, upsetting Masters all over the place. A real Cinderella story. The tournament was held around Halloween, and he had impulsively grabbed a small pumpkin from a holiday display and was holding it during the shot. I couldn't resist the headline: <Put Me In Coach>. Jan-15-10    Phony Benoni: <Arthur "Hard Luck" Houttman> The good news: your team scores six runs in the bottom of the eighth to give you a 13-0 lead. The bad news: It's hard to enjoy the outburst because you're pitching a no-hitter and have to sit there all that time on pins and needles. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... As the story goes, when Houtteman got to the final hitter his catcher called for a curve. Art, for the only time all day, shook off the sign and threw a fast ball instead. Catcher gives Houtteman a hard time for the rest of his life. Jan-15-10    Deus Ex Alekhina: Joey Harrington's days were numbered when Tony Siragusa (not sure on the spelling) did a pregame bit on Harrington & said that Joey liked champagne, not beer, & liked to play the piano. The PIANO! Jan-15-10    Jim Bartle: Bengals' defensive lineman in the 70s, Mike Reid, performed as a pianist with several symphony orchestras, and later became a successful country songwriter and performer. Jan-15-10    Phony Benoni: Here's an interesting little list, though I might give it more credence if the guy knew how to spell accordion: http://www.menc.org/forums/viewtopi... I'm going to spend the rest of the evening trying to imagine a jazz quartet with Marcus Allen on piano, Louis XIV on guitar, Tipper Gore on drums, and Alan Greenspan on tenor sax. Jan-15-10    technical draw: <more credence if the guy knew how to spell accordion> Well, maybe not. Here's an accordian: http://www.wanamakermusic.com/servl... Jan-16-10    Phony Benoni: <This sleek diatonic instrument features 31 treble keys, 12 bass/chord buttons, two sets of treble reeds and double strap brackets.> Sounds like it's more treble than it's worth. Jan-16-10    Travis Bickle: Dr. Benoni and all you sportsfans here is a clean but vicious hit in a college football game, (unfortunatley without sound). This is why recievers develope "alligator arms" going across the middle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Y9... Jan-16-10    Jim Bartle: That looked like a helmet to helmet hit, Travis. Not legal. Jan-16-10    Travis Bickle: Yeah JB I seen this hit early this morning and thought he hit him on the shoulder but you're right helmet to helmet, illegal & extremely dangerous! Jan-16-10    Phony Benoni: These big hits can get in the way of good fundamental football. Players often fail to make simple tackles because they are going for a highlight reel hit. The Lions have been traditionally guitly of this. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 144 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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