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 168 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-20-10    Phony Benoni: Oh, Wakefield is pitching. That explains a lot. Modern record for one game seems to be 17, by the Yankees of course: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/rec.... The 1890 games may have had different scoring rules. I would love to see a box score for the game where the Phillies stole eight bases in the ninth inning against the Giants. Apparently, though, they still lost the game: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Apr-20-10    Phony Benoni: Oops, sorry, that record by the Yankees is 15. Breaking bulletins always make me type poorly. Apr-20-10    keypusher: <One book I constantly read as a kid was John Carmichael's compilation <My Greatest Day in Baseball>, in which players selected their most memorable games. Sisler picked the day he outpitched Walter Johnson and won 1-0.> Hey, I read that book when I was a kid too! There were a few old out of print baseball books my mom found for me somewhere. There was another one whose title escapes me but like Gaul it was divided into three parts: Today (the 40s and 50s); Yesterday (20s and 30s) and Day Before Yesterday (deadball era). Of course Day Before Yesterday was my favorite part. I was very sure that Cobb was really better than Ruth (just look at their batting averages!) just as later, when I started playing chess, I was sure that Capablanca was really better than Alekhine. Apr-20-10    Jim Bartle: When I was eight or nine I had a book called "100 Greatest Sports Heroes" or something like that. I read it so often I knew half by memory. It had such an effect on me that even now, with a few exceptions, I think of those in the book as the greatest, and those not as a notch below, despite some obvious injustices. Apr-20-10    chancho: My son gave me a book for a gift: Dark Horses and Underdogs by Les Krantz. It was about the greatest upsets in sports History. I was given this book about a week before the Superbowl, (between the Pats and the Giants) so I had a feeling the Pats were gonna lose. Sure enough... Apr-21-10    Jim Bartle: It's starting again for the Giants. Past three games, pitchers have given up six runs total. Last night, one-hitter, one run. Result: 0 wins, 3 losses. Just like last year. Apr-21-10    Phony Benoni: Luck is catching up with the Tigers as well. They're still trying to come back from early deficits, but now they're playing teams with reliable closers and it isn't working. The last two nights, they've been stopped by some guy named Fernando Rodney. Didn't recognize him without the roller coaster. Apr-21-10    dakgootje: <It's starting again for the Giants. > Indeed, and I expect them to add a loss tonight. In that case, they would get swept by the padres, how low can you go.. Apr-22-10    WannaBe: Be swept by the Nationals... Apr-22-10    dakgootje: Back to back sweeps for the Padres; first the D-backs, then the Giants. This years World Series will be Yankees vs. Padres ;) Apr-22-10    playground player: <Jim Bartle> Wes Ferrell had a career batting average of .280 and a career total of 38 home runs--including 9 in 1931, all hit as a pitcher. (Babe Ruth played some games in the outfield even as a Red Sox pitcher, and hit some of his homers while doing so.) Ferrell wasn't the only good-hitting pitcher of that era. Red Lucas (NL) hit .281 (but only 3 HR) and Red Ruffing was almost as good as Ferrell, .269 with 36 HR. The pitchers I remember as being really good hitters: Drysdale, Rick Wise, and Marichal. With the lineup he had supporting him, Drysdale had to hit. Apr-22-10    Phony Benoni: And let us not forget Tony Cloninger: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Apr-22-10    Jim Bartle: I keep trying to forget, but people keep bringing it up. Apr-22-10    Travis Bickle: Hey Phony who's Detroit taking in the draft? Apr-22-10    Jim Bartle: They took this wide receiver from Nebraska, named Sue or something. Apr-22-10    Phony Benoni: Hopefully, he's a boy named Sue. With the Lions drafting, you never know. Apr-22-10    Phony Benoni: By the way, I see Pittsburgh got painted 20-0 by the Brewers today. Ouch. Karma, I guess. Remember Rennie Stennett's Immortal? http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... I guess they took out Stennett for defensive purposes, trying to hold the lead. Odd how these things work. Back in 1901, the Indians lost a game to the Tigers, 21-0. In 1939, the Yankees won 21-0 over the A's, in a game shortened to eight innings by either darkness or the mercy rule: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Then it was the Indians who later worked out some frustration against the Yankees. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Apr-22-10    Jim Bartle: Never knew about Stennett's game. And I'd forgotten what a lineup Pittsburgh had in those days: Oliver, Stargell, Parker, Zisk. Apr-22-10    Travis Bickle: They also had Manny Sanguillen, Richie Hebner and Bob Robertson. They used to pound the Cubs by at least a dozen runs. P.S. As far as The NFL Draft is concerned The Bears have the 11th pick in the 3rd round, basically we pick next year. Apr-22-10    Jim Bartle: A lot of great players were picked in the third round or later, Travis. Apr-23-10    Jim Bartle: Kurt Suzuki hit a three-run homer today, and also grounded into a triple play. Wonder if that's ever happened before. It was the Yankees first triple play since 1968, when John Roseboro lined to Dooley Womack, threw to 3B Bobby Cox, who threw to 1B Mickey Mantle. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Apr-23-10    Phony Benoni: Retrosheet has a list of triple plays, but I'm not going to check out every one. At least not right now. Instead, I'll offer you this game: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Apr-23-10    Travis Bickle: The Durocher era Cubs executed a triple play from Santo to Beckert to Banks. I was watching that game on television. The uncanny thing about it was Cubs announcer Jack Brickhouse set it up with a short monalogue. Jack basically said, "how about a triple play here to get out of this jam. I know you say Im a dreamer but that's what makes this game so great, you can dream big and anything can happen." Sure enough on the next pitch Ron Santo got a tailor made ground ball and the rest is history. Another unique thing about that triple play is because Brickhouse called the triple play ahead of time, the recorded play is in The Baseball Hall Of Fame! Apr-23-10    Jim Bartle: You mean this? http://www.museum.tv/newssection.ph... Click on "Triple Play vs Pittsburgh" Apr-23-10    Jim Bartle: Of course I'm now going through all the Brickhouse clips on that page. Check out "Jim Qualls safe at home." Unbelievable. 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