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 227 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Nov-30-10    keypusher: <Jim> <PB> Bill James wrote a long article in 2000 saying that the modern use of closers made no sense strategically. I wondered if anything would change when he went to work for the Red Sox, but as far as I know it hasn't. I think it will change in the way you predict, Jim, but slowly. By the way, you two (and some of the other more serious baseball fans here) might like Posnanski, the SI blogger I linked to. He's wasted on me, you might say. Nov-30-10    playground player: <Phony Benoni>, <keypusher> Great stat! The team that's ahead in the 9th inning wins 90-95% of the time, whether it has a "closer" or not--going all the way back to 1911. With that in mind, it might be "verrrry interesting" (you gotta imagine Arte Johnson saying this, c. 1970) to look at the "Blown Save" stat. Saves should only be blown about 5% of the time, right? Warren Spahn didn't need no stinkin' bullpen! (Actually, I don't suppose anyone needs a really stinking bullpen...) Nov-30-10    Jim Bartle: I've complained about Posnanski here before. He takes forever to get to the point, he has all these boring digressions noted with asterisks, repeats his point in about twenty ways, and often makes the story about himself. Nov-30-10    Jim Bartle: I'm sure there was a lot more to it, but I think James argued that bringing in a closer when the game was tied or the team was ahead by one run would be a lot more effective than bringing him in only when ahead by one or two runs. I wonder if we'll ever read anything about his time with the Red Sox. Probably not. I'll bet he had something to do with the trade for David Ortiz and drafting Dustin Pedroia. Nov-30-10    keypusher: <Jim Bartle: I've complained about Posnanski here before. He takes forever to get to the point, he has all these boring digressions noted with asterisks, repeats his point in about twenty ways, and often makes the story about himself.> You ruined him for me. :) After I read your comment, I went back and looked at some of his stuff, and all I could think of was, <oh, how he does go on!>. Nov-30-10    Jim Bartle: What most bothers me is how he'll often start a story with a long comment that's about himself, somehow related to the subject at hand, and finally, slowly gets starts discussing the point of the article. Bill James is great, and knows how to write to the interest of the typical fan. But he spawned an awful lot of weak imitators. Nov-30-10    hangingenprise: <phony> only lion fan can emphasize with bill fan!-and sympathize with them also. Dec-01-10    Deus Ex Alekhina: <Nightranger> Maybe ur still checking in here, since u don't have ur own forum. I wonder if Eddie Verda is still "Homeless in Ann Arbor"? I have (somewhere) a list of all the active players for the Dearborn Heights chess club from 1974, which include Arsalan, Fereidon, Balkany , Kurt Steege (wheelchair), Henry Jonik, Hank Schwab, Bolda Sr & Jr, Steve Serdenkovski, etc, many of whom played in Livonia. Dec-01-10    crawfb5: Game Collection: Bradley Beach 1929 is more or less done, unless I think of any additional tweaking. I have been chasing down games from the two 1894 Showalter-Hodges matches. We have none in the database. I have already submitted the games from the first match, and need to straighten out a few things on the second match before sending them in. Those were the days. I've found game scores in multiple NY newspapers, sometimes three different papers published the same game. Dec-02-10    crawfb5: I went ahead and submitted what I had for the Showalter-Hodges rematch/extension. I can't make sense of the score for game 3 in the NY Times for 3 Jun 1894. Either the typesetter or I are having issues. I haven't found game 2 at all. There's practically no coverage in any of the NY papers from mid-May to early June. Maybe Helms was on vacation. Dec-02-10    crawfb5: Thanks. That makes sense on the Showalter-Hodges game. I now see where I misread a move (I read "Q-Q3" instead of "Q-Q2") that led me deep into the weeds with no visible way out. Dec-03-10    Jim Bartle: Too bad. Ron Santo has died, and not as a Hall of Famer. Dec-03-10    Travis Bickle: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf3u... Dec-03-10    Travis Bickle: Dr Benoni, you being a Library Scientist I have a few questions for you. My sister bought me a book called 'Bobby Fischer: His Approach To Chess'. The author is Elie Agur and was printed by Cadogan Books from London House. It was published in 1992 with a foreword from Garry Kasparov, so it must have been written after Bobby's rematch with Spassky. Have you heard of this book and if you have what do you think of it? Dec-03-10    Phony Benoni: <Travis> I vaguely remember the Agur book, but have no strong impressions of it one way or the other. <ParisAttack>, who generally knows what he's talking about when it comes to books, gives it a thumbs up here: blacksburg chessforum. If you go to the Search Kibitzing page and search for "Agur Fischer", you'll find a few more reviews, all favorable. Dec-03-10    Travis Bickle: Thanks Dr! Dec-03-10    Nightranger: < Deus Ex Alekhina: <Nightranger> Maybe ur still checking in here, since u don't have ur own forum. > Actually, I am, and I do. < I wonder if Eddie Verda is still "Homeless in Ann Arbor"? > Eddie told me he played chess at the local McDonald's on Friday and Saturday nights, but I haven't seen him when I went in there. < I have (somewhere) a list of all the active players for the Dearborn Heights chess club from 1974, which include Arsalan, Fereidon, Balkany , Kurt Steege (wheelchair), Henry Jonik, Hank Schwab, Bolda Sr & Jr, Steve Serdenkovski, etc, many of whom played in Livonia. > Now I remember. It seemed like a lot of Livonia played at Dearborn Heights. I never actually went in there, which is odd, since it was a block or two from my Grandma's house. It was next to Crestwood High School, wasn't it? Some community center? By the ice rink? Heck, I remember when they built the ice rink. We used to play tennis in there for a while. Dec-03-10    Nightranger: < Deus Ex Alekhina > I've been pretty swamped at work. I have something like 8 months of catch-up and I'll probably have as many as 8 weeks to do it in. So it looks like I'll only be checking around every few days or so. Dec-04-10    Travis Bickle: Hey Phony or Deuce Alekhina, can either of you guys give me easy directions from Chicago to that roller rink stadium in Detroit? I have a couple tickets for the Bears Lions game. As always I will be wearing my bear head in the stands. It's not so easy getting the beers down but I'm a proud Bears fan! ; P http://miva01.nyi.net/graphics/0000... Dec-04-10    Phony Benoni: <Travis> Easy enough. Get on I-94, go east, and keep going till you see the parking lot full of Bears' tailgaters. Just don't keep the meter running. Or, if you're serious: http://www.detroitlions.com/ford-fi... But it's basically I-94 East to some exit in the 210s and go south. Dec-04-10    Travis Bickle: Dr Benoni now you have real class! ; ) Dec-05-10    Phony Benoni: Hey, the Lions covered the spread again! Moral Victory! Dec-05-10    Jim Bartle: Cincinnati, Detroit lose close games in the final minutes. It just seems the teams with better records don't make key mistakes, while the teams at the bottom do. Dec-05-10    Phony Benoni: In the Lions' case, they got shut down offensively in the second half again. They scored one field goal, after recovering a fumble inside the Bears' 10 yard line. Dec-05-10    Travis Bickle: Dr Benoni The Bears beat a good Lion Football team! Detroit will be the real thing next season!! Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 227 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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