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 145 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-16-10    Phony Benoni: Cardinals are slipping. Took them 19 seconds to score. Jan-16-10    Jim Bartle: I'm looking at the reports at cnnsi.com, and it reports conditions as "fog, 56 degrees." I'd think they could make it more pleasant inside the Superdome. Jan-16-10    Travis Bickle: Kurt Warner almost got killed with that blindside hit! Jan-16-10    Travis Bickle: Marques Colston is a giant wide reciever!! Jan-16-10    Jim Bartle: Has there ever been a player whose career more resembles a soap opera than Kurt Warner? He's been up and down about five times, plus he's got that wife who calls up radio shows to berate those who criticize him. He's had brilliant stretches of passing, incredible stuff, and then times when he fumbles every other play or can't avoid the rush to save his life. Jan-17-10    Phony Benoni: A regular season game with 13 Hall-of-Famers playing: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Jan-17-10    playground player: <Phony Benoni> Before I open the Retrosheet game, let me guess: Yanks vs. A's, 1927. Hall of Famers available: NY, Ruth, Gehrig, Combs, Lazzeri, Hoyt, Pennock; Phil, Simmons, Cobb, Cochrane, Wheat, Grove, E. Collins, Foxx... Did I miss any? Now to check out the game and see if I was right. Jan-17-10    playground player: 1928 instead of 1927--off by a year! Amazing any team, even the Yankees, could handle Lefty Grove that roughly--and with Babe Ruth getting only one hit. Jan-17-10    Phony Benoni: <playground player> Good gues! Looking at the team rosters, I see the A's got all their HOFers into the game, while the Yankees still had Herb Pennock, Stan Coveleskie and Bill Dickey in reserve. Jan-17-10    WannaBe: < Jim Bartle: "Does it really matter that Brett Favre is 0-3 against Dallas in the playoffs?" Of course it does. It means he's "due."> Good call, hope you won a bunch of money on the game, Minn. -2.5 Jan-17-10    Jim Bartle: And later I learned the last of Favre's three losses to Dallas was in 1995. Not exactly relevant today. Jan-17-10    Phony Benoni: I'm trying to get my baseball fix by fooling around with some of my old Strat-O-Matic baseball cards. I'm playing with 78 "classic" teams from 1905-1976, and strange things happen when players from different eras clash. I thought it was bad enough when Hector Lopez hit three triples in one game. But now it's George Moriarty, the third baseman on the 1909 Detroit Tigers. He hit one home run the entire season, but just got two in consecutive at bats. Off Sandy Koufax. Jan-17-10    Jim Bartle: Sure, why not? I think Bob Uecker hit Koufax well, or at least one of the big guys from the 60s. And maybe it was Koufax circa 1959. Looking at some data, and I see around 1930 there were around 50 Hall of Famers playing. Six or seven at several positions. In the eighties it was more like 20 each year. Jan-17-10    Phony Benoni: Part of that is Veterans Committee selections. By 2050, there will be more Hall-of-Famers from the 1980s. But a larger number is probably due to the offensive explosion during the 20s and 30s, when many numbers were inflated. It was probably like playing all the games at Coors Field. By the way, Bob Uecker hit only .184 against Koufax--which, considering how he hit in general, was quite good. But in looking at Koufax's breakdown against all hitters: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... I think you may have been thinking of Bill Virdon, who was over .400 with 50+ ABs against Koufax. Hank Aaron was also very good (.362), but most of the gaudy numbers were obviously from Koufax's early years. Jan-17-10    Jim Bartle: Agree more from the 80s will make Hall of Fame, but still stay only about half of 1930. In 1930, with only sixteen teams, six had HOF first basemen, five had HOF shortstops, six had HOF center fielders, and seven had HOF right fielders. And those were all regulars, not including players at the tail end of their careers, or just starting. I remember that Uecker hit one of the top pitchers pretty well, but can't remember which one. Jan-18-10    Phony Benoni: Judge for yourself. i don't think 2 for 3 against Drysdale counts. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... By the way, here's his home run against Koufax: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... In the Cardinals fifth, and notice two odd things: (1) the play-by-play points out that it bounced on top of the fence; (2) Koufax intentionally walked Uecker the next time up. Jan-18-10    jessicafischerqueen: <P B & J> Thank you for such an illuminating and humorous response. Might I just close by mentioning how much I enjoy you for lunch with a cold glass of milk? Jan-18-10    Phony Benoni: <jessicafischerqueen> There are times when a careful silence is best, and this seems like one of them. Jan-18-10    A.G. Argent: What!? Jimmy Baseball (Edmonds) is lobbying LaRussa for a comeback with St. Louis? Jan-18-10    Phony Benoni: Seems as good a place as any, and better than most. Did they part on bad terms? Jan-18-10    jessicafischerqueen: lol it was you who gave me official permission to refer to you as "P B & J" which I took to mean "peanut butter and jelly sandwich." Surely a perennial favorite, no? At any rate, the very best of 2010 to you and thanks again for your participation in the important "Big Three World Historical Project." I understand the last pow wow at Yalta went well. Jan-19-10    A.G. Argent: At first, I took it to mean <PB> and <J>, as in J. Bartle. You guys are a bit of a tag team. PB & J. Ham and eggs. Gin and tonic. Starsky and Hutch. Bob and Ray. Ferrante and Teicher. Evers and Chance. As for Edmonds and TLR, nope, they got along just fine. It was Rolen and La Russa who were oil and water. It's just that when Hollywood was traded to the Cubs in '07, I hated to see him go, whatever the reason. Now, the thought of him coming back? I don't know. Dude's 39 and fallen off in production. But if he got a legit shot at maybe being the 4th outfielder? They are lacking in depth there. (PS-30 days from now, pitchers and catchers will be in camp.) Jan-19-10    Phony Benoni: <A.G. Argent> Oh, that PB&J bit relates to my other activity around here, which is actually chess-related (odd as that may seem). And if <JB> and I were a team, we'd probably be the Odd Couple. He hangs around in all the evil neighborhoods that are too hot and spicy for my quiet and sensitive nature. I guess when you live amongst all those Peruvian volcanoes, nothing bothers you. (Just joking, Jim! Love having you around here as well.) Jan-19-10    Jim Bartle: Actually I live beneath and around the glacier-covered peaks, with the threat of massive avalanches or alluvions, not near volcanoes. http://miramonteclass68.com/Present... Jan-19-10    Deus Ex Alekhina: Speaking of food: in Peru there is the cute & delightful Guinea Pig Festival with the pigs dressed up in clever outfits - and then they are eaten, a true delicacy. Also, in the Andes there was that plane crash carrying members of a soccer team, some of whom were also eaten. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 145 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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