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 222 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Nov-07-10    OhioChessFan: <PB: Good to see Michigan's defense come up big today, stopping a two-pointer in the third overtime to win 67-65. Now, if only the basketball team can play that well...> <tps: Thrilling game, but it was unintentionally hilarious when our homer radio announcers declared the entire U-M Defense as "Player of the Game" for making a single stop at the very very end.> Maybe they thought they were calling a Michigan basketball game, when 45 points in regulation would be a great defensive effort. Nov-07-10    Jim Bartle: OCF: I guess you went to Miami of Ohio. A few years ago they had an absolutely brilliant basketball player named Wally Szczerbiak who tore up the NCAA tournament one year. He looked like a surefire NBA star to me, but didn't do too much and bounced from team to team. Did you watch him play, and why do you think he didn't do that well? I must say I would be a terrible NBA GM or scout. Nov-07-10    Jim Bartle: What did Canada ever do to deserve this? Buffalo Bills vs. Chicago Bears, in Toronto. Nov-07-10    Phony Benoni: At least the Bills and Bears get a warm weather game. Nov-07-10    OhioChessFan: <JB: He looked like a surefire NBA star to me, but didn't do too much and bounced from team to team. Did you watch him play, and why do you think he didn't do that well?> I got to maybe 10 games in his career and watched maybe 20 more on TV. He had some decent pro years, but I was definitely disappointed in his NBA career. He was just not tall enough to play power forward in the NBA and not quite quick enough to play a wing. He played a little shooting guard in college, and would just overpower the opposition. That doesn't work in the NBA where there's a lot of 2 guards that have similar size to Wally. A real problem is that the slightly longer NBA 3 point line seemed to be just beyond his range. I don't know if that caused him to lose confidence in his shot, but he didn't seem nearly as good a shooter later on. Nov-07-10    Travis Bickle: <Jim Bartle: What did Canada ever do to deserve this? Buffalo Bills vs. Chicago Bears, in Toronto.> Well Jim they could have gotten the matchup of The Bills vs The 49ers. ; P Nov-07-10    Jim Bartle: The 49ers may be bad, but they're not dull. Nov-07-10    Jim Bartle: Thanks, OCF. Nov-07-10    chancho: The Patriots got their asses pounded good today by Cleveland. Nov-07-10    Travis Bickle: <Jim Bartle: The 49ers may be bad, but they're not dull.> Yeah but playing in that gay bay in San Fran isn't all that exciting, unless your batting for the other team. Nov-07-10    Jim Bartle: It may have been a few years ago, but I believe the 49ers have had several successful seasons, including 1981, 1984, 1988, 1989, and 1994. Nov-07-10    Travis Bickle: JB if you look up The Chicago Bears records way before the 49ers existed I believe you will find many a winning season, also including a 73-0 Bears victory over the Redskins for the Championship game! Nov-07-10    Jim Bartle: Bears have a great history, no doubt. They're just kind of boring these days. Somewhere on youtube there's a long interview with George Halas about how they got the NFL started. Really interesting. Nov-07-10    Phony Benoni: A little Brooklyn trash-talking, vintage 1893: http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers... (Two middle colummns. May take a couple of minutes to load.) Nov-08-10    Stonehenge: Happy Birthday :) Nov-08-10    Jim Bartle: Hilarious newspaper report, PB. The game report is straightforward, but the editor writing the headlines went overboard. Nov-08-10    keypusher: <PB> Thanks, great article. I was intrigued by the headline "Where's Jack Dempsey?" since he hadn't even been born in 1893. But they were referring to the Nonpareil. Nov-08-10    technical draw: There's a video that's gone viral about a high school football play. The quarterback pretends there's confusion and takes the ball from the center and starts to mark off yardage only to run for a touchdown. Now that's fine and dandy except it's been done before. A few years back another high school team made the exact same play and I remember seeing the video. But the commentators act like it's never happened before. Nov-08-10    Jim Bartle: You don't have to go to high school to find that sort of trickery. Look at the TD Cleveland scored yesterday, the whole team "looking" confused, the quarterback lined up wide, then a quick snap and handoff to another guy who ran it in for the score. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQrd... Nov-08-10    crawfb5: I had the day off and was taking it easy, recovering from a cold, so I pulled out my early Chess Life/Chess Review CDs to do some early snooping. The first year of Chess Review was 1933 and so the first Western championship/US Open to receive coverage was the 1933 event in Detroit! Fine won ahead of Reshevsky and Dake despite losing to Reshevsky: Reshevsky vs Fine, 1933 Fine won every other game to finish 12-1. Reshevsky went undefeated, but drew against Dake, Factor, Margolis, and Barnes and so finished a full point behind Fine. They have Dake-Stolcenberg, but the other Detroit games seem to be in the database already. Nov-08-10    Phony Benoni: That Browns thing popped up in the Cowboys' game last night. Problem was, Dallas wasn't trying to run a trick play. Nov-09-10    A.G. Argent: Just noticed at your games page, Czar; Happy Birthday. Nov-09-10    Annie K.: Slightly belated Happy Birthday! :) Nov-09-10    chancho: Happy Birthday Mr Moody. Nov-09-10    Phony Benoni: Thanks for the birthday greetings, but it's not big deal. I've done this sort of thing before. 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