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 196 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jul-11-10    Phony Benoni: <just a kid> I don't know he fares agaisnt the rest of the league, but Cy Pavano always seems to stifle the Tigers. Jul-11-10    just a kid: Pavano has the best ERA of any starting pitcher on the Twins but it is something like 3.78 Jul-11-10    keypusher: God may be immortal, but apparently His Voice is not. R.I.P. Mr. Sheppard. Jul-11-10    Phony Benoni: Which reminds that the box score of Sheppard's first game, which we talked about back here: Phony Benoni chessforum Is now available. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Jul-12-10    playground player: There was nothing quite like Bob Sheppard's voice floating out over the field at Yankee Stadium. "Ladies and gentlemen... Now entering Heaven from New York City... Please give a warm welcome to Mr. Bob Sheppard..." I would love to hear that! Jul-12-10    Travis Bickle: Hey Phony, here's a band that will be bigger than Elvis, bigger than The Beatles!! And I thought it only appropriate to put it here on your forum! Here they are 'The Baseballs'!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM21... Jul-12-10    Phony Benoni: <Travis> You think they were big? See if you can find a clip of the Basketballs. Jul-12-10    Jim Bartle: There are always the Crickets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt02... Jul-12-10    A.G. Argent: And what goes around, comes around. Travis, for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltvM... Jul-12-10    Travis Bickle: Hey A.G. not a bad cover! ; P Lennon & McCartney were big fans of Buddy Holly! Here's Lennon doing Maybe Baby in the early Beatle days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh2F... Here's Paul in '75 doing a fine version of Peggy Sue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lV7... Jul-13-10    LIFE Master AJ: A Rubesov vs G Borisenko, 1960 Jul-12-10 LIFE Master AJ: <<Phony Benoni> <This is a game <<worth studying deeply.> And when such a game <is entertaining as well,>> what more could you ask?>> I apologize for my comment, I was NOT trying to demean this game! I just took about 10 minutes to run through it ... and its so wild, and the fur really flies ... all I could do was wonder if anything was sound or correct. Of course it was a fun game. Thanks for the background on both the players, I was aware that Borisenko was quite a good player ... both in OTB and postal chess. Jul-13-10    Phony Benoni: <LIFE Master AJ> And I guess I took your comment a little too seriously. It's unusual for me to take anything seriously, but these things happen. Oh, well. No harm, no foul. Jul-13-10    technical draw: George Steinbrenner dies at 80: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/bbo_obit... Jul-13-10    Jim Bartle: And angels are preparing their resumes... Jul-13-10    Phony Benoni: Can't say I loved Steinbrenner. Or liked him. Or even particularly respected him. But I do know we often wind up missing our lightning rods more than we realize, for then we have to find someone else to blame. Jul-13-10    Jim Bartle: I agree that it's fun to have villains to root against. There's not all that much excitement when all the competition is among nice, respectful people. Jul-13-10    technical draw: Come visit anytime!: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Orlan... Jul-13-10    playground player: <Phony Benoni> The New York press had a field day with George Steinbrenner, gleefully casting him as the villain in every Yankees story. Not until years later did we hear about his unfailing charity (yes, he was a soft touch). And it took even longer to appreciate his insane devotion to winning--he really didn't care how much it cost to bring a pennant to Yankee Stadium. In an age of baseball run by bean counters and computers, Steinbrenner was the last of a breed. R.I.P., George--no one could possibly have been as bad as they made you out to be. Jul-13-10    Jim Bartle: But Steinbrenner's last great run, basically 1996-2003, was not fueled by high-salaried free agents. Maybe Knoblauch, but none of the others on the field. Giambi at the end, but he wasn't such a big contributor. Clemens as well, but the Yankees already had an excellent pitching staff. The heart of those teams were original Yankees plus inexpensive pickups like O'Neill and Brosius. Jul-13-10    WannaBe: If you had told me, that a pitcher from Colorado and a pitcher from Tampa Bay was going to be the starting pitchers in an All-Star game, say oh, five years ago, I'd laugh so hard, I would end up lookin' like <technical draw> !!!! Jul-13-10    hms123: <Wannabe> Hey! Watch it! That pitcher from Tampa Bay is from Vanderbilt University. (where I teach) :-) (p.s., and so is Pedro Alvarez) Jul-13-10    Travis Bickle: What would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad is Colorado and Tampa Bay have built more solid baseball teams in their relatively short existence than The Cubs have since about 1969! I take that back, Colorado made an appearance in a World Series in 2007. So both franchises have better baseball programs than The Chicago Cubs in 102 years!! Jul-13-10    WannaBe: <hms123> Pedro Alvarez teaches at Vandy? =) Jul-13-10    WannaBe: <Travis Bickle> Not to mention how long it took for Florida and Arizona to win a World Series, and then have an immediate garage sale... Jul-14-10    Jim Bartle: Headline at si.com: "Unsigned T.O. worried he's seen as troublemaker" Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 196 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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