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 219 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-26-10    Jim Bartle: Some "new" photos from the 1955 Series. The one of Robinson stealing home is great. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/... Oct-26-10    Jim Bartle: Whoops, there goes the Heat's perfect season. Oct-26-10    chancho: Watching Shaq in a Celts uniform at the free throw line is weird. Even more so knowing he's mostly going to miss, yuck! Oct-26-10    Jim Bartle: Shaq as a Celt is just sacrilege. Reminds me of when they signed Dominique Wilkins, regarded as the anti-Celtic. Might be interesting to see Shaq and Big Baby Davis standing side by side, though. Oct-26-10    Phony Benoni: Could they do that without one of them being out of bounds? Oct-26-10    Jim Bartle: I was wondering the same thing. I think if (now retired) Reggie Miller got stuck between them he'd get squashed. Oct-27-10    Jim Bartle: Mays and McCovey before the game tonight. Gonna be some tears in the house. Oct-27-10    Phony Benoni: Great pitcher's duel tonight. Too bad they shot each other and the seconds had to take over. And the thirds. And the fourths... Oct-27-10    Jim Bartle: Count: Shall we say pistols at dawn? Woody: We can say it. I don't know what it means, but we can say it. Uribe's home run was one of the hardest hit balls I've seen in a while. Not terribly long because it was a line drive, but a real shot. I don't care what team a guy is playing for. It's never fun to see a guy bumbling out there the way Guerrero was. He's bound to hit a couple homers in Texas to make up for those errors. Oct-28-10    hangingenprise: when you start throwing around names like koufax, gibson, mathewson, the elite of the elite, and compare them to game one starting pitchers, one has to step back and say-say what! even though mathewson was 1900 era pitcher, he was one of the original five inducted in the h.o.f. Oct-29-10    playground player: <hangingenprise> Mediocrity, on its way to sheer shoddiness, is the lifeblood of our culture. Baseball is not immune. If Sandy Koufax or Christy Mathewson came along today, professional pitching coaches would train them to go 5 innings with an ERA of 4.50. Oct-29-10    Jim Bartle: Not to argue, but remember that Sandy Koufax's career was cut short by arthritis. Under today's management of pitchers (which I do suspect is too soft) he probably could have pitched several years more. And Mathewson pitched during the dead ball era, when a pitcher didn't really have to throw all out into he got into trouble. The chance of giving up a home run was remote. The Giants in those years, a good team, were scoring fewer than three runs per game. More to the point is what modern managers would do with a guy like Nolan Ryan. Oct-29-10    hangingenprise: <playground player> i saw koufax pitch twice and he was an artist to behold. as joe morgan said his curve ball could splitter your bat it broke that hard. i saw the express pitch against the tigers in which he struck out 14 and won 2-0 on wille mays akins home run. Oct-29-10    Jim Bartle: Unless my memory is selective, everybody loved Koufax, even in SF. SF fans were pretty upset when he retired so abruptly. An absolutely brilliant pitcher, with a beautiful motion as well. On those days he had good control, Ryan was often unhittable. In fact he gave up fewer hits per game than any other pitcher in history, by a fair margin. His problem was just too many walks, also one of the highest rates in history. He is far and away the career leader in walks, and by a margin similar to his margin over #2 in strikeouts. Oct-29-10    Phony Benoni: I saw Ryan pitch at Tiger Stadium the day he threw a no-hitter and struck out 17. The home fans were cheering foul balls. Late in the game, Norm Cash came to the plate carrying a piano leg. The umpire protested, but Cash said "What does it matter? I'm not going to hit the ball anyway!" http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Ryan actually had sixteen strikeouts after seven innings, but apparently stiffened up a bit when the Angels scored five in the top of the 8th. Oct-29-10    Jim Bartle: Ernie Harwell's call of the last inning of that game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbI3... Harwell mentions that Cash had to go back and get a different bat, that the one he had was "illegal." First time I heard it I laughed, remembering the table leg story. Oct-30-10    Travis Bickle: Hey Dr Benoni, maybe you can help me out with this football question. Did this defensive end play for the Bears in the 40's? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUhK... Oct-30-10    Jim Bartle: Not sure. The 49ers have had some offensive linemen with about the same level of mobility. Oct-30-10    Travis Bickle: <Jim Bartle> They say this guy wasn't fast but he was quick, and on Defense he could really tear your head off. ; P Oct-30-10    Phony Benoni: Not defensive end, <Travis>. Meeting up with this guy would lead to an offensive end. Oct-30-10    hangingenprise: <phony> i saw the express pitch against the tigers in the mid seventies. i think he really had 16 strikeouts, but i do remember akins hit a homer. if you could find the retro sheet, i would like to see it. it took place at anaheim stadium. tks. Oct-30-10    Jim Bartle: This game fits the bill: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Oct-30-10    Phony Benoni: I haven't been watching the Series faithfully on television. It's not the teams; I think I'm just overdosed on political ads. But I figured I'd give it a shot tonight, even go whole hog and watch the pregame. So the first thing they show is Justin Bieber. Click. Oct-30-10    Jim Bartle: The story goes that during WWII new arrivals at German prison camps were asked who was leading the NL and the AL, trying to pick out German spies. So in 1944 one guy answered and was then harassed constantly for the next few weeks, until finally a couple of new prisoners arrived. So another guy came up to the first prisoner and said, "Gee, we're sorry, but we just didn't believe you when you said the Browns we're leading the AL." I wonder what would happen in a similar situation today and the question was, "Who's playing in the World Series?" Oct-31-10    hangingenprise: <jim> tks. for finding the game. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 219 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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