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 198 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jul-18-10    Travis Bickle: <Phony Benoni: "Pigs have flown in Boston, Massachusetts!"> Or maybe a more accurate headline would have been, "Pigs have run in Boston"! LOL Jul-18-10    A.G. Argent: Travis, that was great. Jul-18-10    Travis Bickle: <A.G. Argent> I seen that movie in the theaters way back when about the womens baseball league starring Tom Hanks & Geena Davis. It was a real good flick. Jul-19-10    Phony Benoni: Austin Jackson was <not> playing centerfield for the Tigers today: http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/video... Jul-19-10    just a kid: Twins and Tigers tied for 2nd place in the division. It seems we are making our regular post all-star break run :) Jul-19-10    Phony Benoni: And we are making our regular post all-star break collapse. Still early, though. Jul-19-10    Jim Bartle: Come on, just because you miss a really tough catch, that's no reason to leave the field. Reminds me a little of the end of the movie Damn Yankees. Fly ball to deep center and the young Senators star has a bead on it to win the pennant, and the Devil turns him back into the old guy he really is. But he still catches it, wins the pennant, runs out the door in center and is never seen again. Jul-19-10    Jim Bartle: He's out! Giants lose! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/objec... Jul-19-10    A.G. Argent: Now, Czar, be fair, that weren't for lack of effort on Raburn's part. He made a pretty strong effort and it would have been a spectacular catch even for Jackson. It just didn't help that that bloody damned door ate him up and made him look bad. But actually it may have kept him from getting hurt in giving way. Jul-19-10    just a kid: <Jim Bartle> 2010 will go down as the year of bad umpiring...In NFL,MLB,World Cup... Jul-19-10    A.G. Argent: Yeah, Jim, out by a mile......NOT!! http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?c... Amazing. The ump was standing right on top of it. A very badly blown call. If these bad calls keep happening, the murmurings about instant replay are going to gather steam. Just hope the Giant's take it out on the downtrodden Dodgers tonight. Sorry, Dave Zechiel. Jul-19-10    just a kid: If I was the catcher on that play I would argue to the ump that he was safe! :) Jul-19-10    Jim Bartle: The Giants won't take anything out on the Dodgers. Just can't beat them, not very often. It's funny, though. A day or two earlier a Met tried to steal second, and the ball got there perfectly when the runner was still three feet short of the base. Shortstop slapped down the glovë: out! But as I saw it, the guy slid in head first and his hand touched the bag beside the bag. No tag! Seems the umpires make the calls by routine sometimes. Jul-19-10    Phony Benoni: <A.G. Argent> Oh, I'm not criticizing Raburn. He always gives 100%, which is more than I can say for some of the other Tigers. But he's simply not a very good outfielder, and that's the sort of thing that happens when you hustle without a lot of skill. To make it up to him, here's his catch from the next inning: http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/video... Jul-19-10    Phony Benoni: Now this is the sort of play that makes me angry. The look on Jim Leyland's face says it all: http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/video... If somebody like Raburn pulled a stunt like this, he'd be eating dinner in AAA. It's sad in a way, since Cabrera really seemed to have cleaned up his act after the fiasco at the end of last year. Looks like he still has some growing up to do. Jul-19-10    Jim Bartle: Bad. Inexcusable. Jul-19-10    A.G. Argent: Yes, it seems being a bit of a punk is still alive and well with Cabrera. Classic look on Leyland's face. What became of Cabrera upon reaching in that inning? Jul-19-10    Travis Bickle: I'm running a pool of when skipper Lou Piniella gets the boot! The guy closet to the date gets a pair of Whitesox tickets. LOL P.S. Can anyone say Ryne Sandberg for Cubs manager! Jul-19-10    Phony Benoni: <Travis Bickle> I dunno about Ryne Sandberg for Cubs manager. He always impressed me as an intelligent player. <JB> By the way, I've taken a few looks at that Giants' replay, and it looks possible that the runner's foot was in the air over home plate instead of touching it. But I'm still not used to these new glasses. Jul-19-10    A.G. Argent: Nope, sorry Czar, to dispel any doubt, after he gets up you can see a trail of dust across the plate where he dragged his foot WAAY ahead of and beneath the tag. Maybe it is the new specs. How's the post-surgery peepers doing anyway? Jul-19-10    A.G. Argent: Well, well, well, Travis, finally come around to the sacking of Piniella issue, have we. Good. If you can see it, then so should all of all of your Cub bretheren. But I say they let him ride out the rest of the season and heads roll in the off-season with him being first in line. And forgive my ignorance but does Sandberg have any coaching/managing experience? I honestly don't know. Jul-19-10    Phony Benoni: <A.G. Argent> Sandberg has been managing in the Cubs organization since 2007, and steadily moving up the ladder; he's at AAA Iowa now. And my vision is much better, thanks for asking. I just like having a convenient excuse now and then. Jul-19-10    Jim Bartle: Sandberg was one of those guys who seemed like a manager even when he was playing. Jul-19-10    Jim Bartle: I see Cabrera had a pretty good response tonight: two home runs. Jul-20-10    Phony Benoni: Yeah, but the Tigers still lost 8-6 in 14 innings. Eventful game. Home runs all over the place, Tigers lost 3B Brandon Inge for 4-6 weeks with a broken hand, and Austin Jackson doubled off the pitcher's head: http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/news/a... 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