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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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   Phony Benoni has kibitzed 18634 times to chessgames [more...]

   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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Living in the Past

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Aug-12-11		Jim Bartle: Rays hit five home runs against the Yankees tonight, scored five runs in the game. That can't be too common. Also a great relay throw by the second baseman Rodriguez to throw out Swisher trying to score from first on a double to right. An absolute bullet.

Aug-13-11		Phony Benoni: <JB> Couldn't find the record for most runs scored only on solo home runs, but five off one pitcher has been done several times. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... I especially like this one. Denny McLain faces 14 batters. Five strikeouts. Five home runs. All or nothing! Also, it was the debut game for Len Randle. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... I did find the ironic fact that, coming into the game, the Rays were leading the major leagues by having only 51.3% of their home runs being solo.

Aug-13-11		Jim Bartle: I feel confident that the Rays tied the record for fewest runs scored by a team hitting five home runs.

Aug-13-11		WannaBe: <Jim Bartle> the most uniquely interesting, full of information that you never thought of man in the world. Funny, everyone I come across, I ask them in NorCal, Do you know <Jim Bartle> they all just back away quietly and quickly...

Aug-13-11		Jim Bartle: Sure they do...

Aug-13-11		I play the Fred: Phony: Please feel free to delete after reading - I don't want to interrupt a good sports discussion - but I substituted <4. Rxf7+> for <4 Qf6> in your suggested line on my forum and it <might> be winning. (I'm having trouble cracking one defense, though)

Aug-13-11		Phony Benoni: http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%... See the <Strange as it Seems> feature, with some kid named DiMaggio. Bet he'll never do anything like that if he gets to the majors!

Aug-16-11		Phony Benoni: Basketball stars of 75 years ago: http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%... For me, this is a reminder of the effects of the Great Depression. These were probably some of the healthiest people around.

Aug-17-11		jessicafischerqueen: Chess stars of 45 years ago: Game Collection: USSR Championship 1967 Thanks for this- truly impressive work, and invaluable to my current research.

Aug-19-11		Phony Benoni: <jessicafischerqueen> Thanks, and you're welcome. I only wish I could have found a more complete record; 1967 remains a major blip in our USSR Championship coverage.

Aug-21-11		perfidious: <Phony Benoni> 'Joe De Maggio', is it? Some other kid called Fine featured in this page came off fairly well too-who would have thought that two years on, he'd be amongst the contenders at Nottingham, whilst Alekhine's challenger would wind up an also-ran?

Aug-21-11		playground player: <Phony Benoni> Gee, not an ounce of fat on any of those basketball players from 75 years ago. Not an ounce of steroid muscle, either <SpeedyMcGreedy> and <Gluefoot Lardbutt> never played in the Metrodome. Check your Strat-O-Matic collection! I'm pretty sure they played for the 1959 Phillies...

Aug-21-11		Phony Benoni: <perfidious> Strange as it seems, that feature didn't always have its facts completely straight. We're probably lucky they didn't call him "Joe D. Maggio". But I have a childhood memory here. Several times, our family drove from Michigan to Arkansas to see my mother's parents. We would stop overnight with my father's sister outside St. Louis. The four kids slept in the basement, which had a small collection of books. One was an anthology of "Strange as it Seems" columns. Every time we stopped there, I stayed up half the night reading that book. I think we tend to forget that Fine was a teenage prodigy. He won the Western Championsip (US Open) at age 17, a record that stood until Fischer suddenly got good. I think the only other teenagers to win that tournament were Reshevsky (1931) and Evans (1951), both a few months before their 20th birthdays.

Aug-21-11		Phony Benoni: Now, just in case you think Useless Baseball Statistics are an innovation of the computer age, here' a report from the <Brooklyn Daily Eagle>, September 14, 1913: <"[Frank] Chance's New York Americans worked to within two points of seventh place yesterday by winning from Detroit, 4 to 3, while St. Louis was losing in Boston. The superstitious had picked the New Yorks to win as they had captured every game played on the 13th of a month this year. The occult influence was right there, and they won the fourth such victory."> The "statistic" is funny enough, but I especially like having a New York paper get all excited because the Yankees were getting close to 7th place. They eventually made it, by two percentage points.

Aug-21-11		WannaBe: See, we knew, way back then, that the Yankees/Americans were evil-Satan related... This year: April 13th Yankees 7 - 4 Baltimore May 13th Yankees 4 - 5 Boston June 13th Yankees 0 - 1 Cleveland July 13th DNP August 13th Yankees 9 - 2 Tampa Bay September 13th Yankees @ Seattle Which means, they will probably finish 3-2 on the 13th of day 'myth'... =)

Aug-21-11		WannaBe: http://news.yahoo.com/8-charged-all... Read the short article, and try to guess, which best-selling author they talking about... (Me, I have no idea, have a couple of candidates... but no solid idea.)

Aug-21-11		WannaBe: Okay, the ball goes off my glove, off my head, and your average run of the mill 8-4-3 triple play... You see it every day. http://news.yahoo.com/obama-summer-...

Aug-21-11		Phony Benoni: That link must work differently in California, but then doesn't everything?

Aug-21-11		WannaBe: Which link?! The baseball or the author ponzi scheme?

Aug-21-11		Phony Benoni: The baseball link, of course. I don't care about any Fonzie schemes.

Aug-21-11		WannaBe: Oops, wrong copy/paste... =) http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/bi... I do not work in IT, I have no affiliation with any company based in California, or San Mateo County, this is an act of pure sabotage, someone logged in as me and posted a wrong link!

Aug-21-11		Phony Benoni: <WanneBe> Thanks. That was worth it.

Aug-22-11		perfidious: <Phony Benoni: The "statistic" is funny enough, but I especially like having a New York paper get all excited because the Yankees were getting close to 7th place. They eventually made it, by two percentage points.> Many Yankee fans of today, accustomed to winning at every turn, would blanch in horror if they knew that their team was mostly mediocre during the deadball era. They deserve a few more reminders of those halcyon days of putridity. <WannaBe> That triple play was impressive; I watched it on CBS.com, intending to post it, but checked here first-saved a bit of trouble, lol.

Aug-22-11		hms123: <Phony Benoni> Here's a <triple-play> you won't believe from my minor-league home team, the Nashville Sounds. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/bi...

Aug-22-11		Phony Benoni: <hms123> Our Intrepid West Coast Correspondent scooped you on that one. But thanks anyway; it's worth watching again!

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