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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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Sep-26-11		Phony Benoni: Doug Fister goes 8 innings, 0 runs, 3 hits, 0 walks, 9 Ks. Verlander may not be the best pitcher on the Tigers at the moment. He may not come out for the 9th inning, if they ever get there. So far the Tigers have scored six in the bottom of the eighth to stretch the lead to 12-0. Fister may spend the ninth composing a "Thank You" letter to the Seattle GM. Oops--make that eight runs in the bottom of the 8th for a 14-0 lead, The Seattle GM has a permanent place on Doug Fister's Christmas card list.

Sep-26-11		WannaBe: <Shams> of course! If both BoSox and Angels keep blowing games! =) Currently, BoSox are the Wild Card Leader, TB is 1 back, and LAA is 3 back. (3 games remain in the regular season.) And right now, BoSox is losing, TB is winning, LAA plays in about 30 minutes, hosting Texas.

Sep-26-11		Phony Benoni: Meanwhile, in the NL Atlanta is losing to Philadelphia and St. Louis to Houston. The moonwalk to the playoffs continues.

Sep-26-11		WannaBe: Detroit Lions beat the Cleveland Browns 14-0 in a ho-hum Monday Night Football game. However, B. Sanders did rush for 2189 yards on 155 carries.

Sep-26-11		WannaBe: Matt Kemp just homered, taking the HR lead by one over A. Pujols, he is also ahead in the RBI category, but needs .010 for the NL batting crown. Could LA Dodgers have 2 triple crown winners in the same year? A trying year with the McCourt fiasco?!

Sep-26-11		Phony Benoni: Tampa Bay wins, Boston loses. Race is even with two games to go. In the NL, Atlanta has lost. St. Louis just tied their game with the Astros in the 8th. If they pull it out, that race is also tied.

Sep-27-11		Jim Bartle: I've never been a Dodgers fan, but I've always liked Matt Kemp. Just looks like a real ballplayer, is great to watch. I hope he does it.

Sep-27-11		WannaBe: <Jim Bartle: I've never been a Dodgers fan...> Well, here a big O' raspberry for ya! Pppppppppppttttthhhhh!!!! Thinking about going to this weekend's UCLA-Stanford game, the last time I was there, we got our a$$ kicked so bad, (this was back in 1990, my freshman year...) Boy, I was young, handsome, winsome, good-looking, bright future, and smart! (Okay, I had a bright future... but that's not the point.) Maybe, I will go and watch them jumpin' tree slaughter the Bruins... =(

Sep-27-11		Jim Bartle: In truth the Dodgers haven't really been the Dodgers since the O'Malleys sold the team. Back then that was a great rival to have: always a little better than the Giants, long-term teams built primarily from the farm system, great fun. Now they seem like just another team, though I think it's more a homegrown team than a few years ago.

Sep-27-11		keypusher: <jim bartle> <That brings to mind one of Bill Walsh's sayings: "The key to winning in the NFL is a pass rush in the fourth quarter." That's why he always played two full sets of linemen, so they'd still be strong at the end.> And sure enough: <The biggest difference between the way the Vikings play during the first half of games and the second half has been the relative disappearance of their pass rush. During the first half of their three games so far this year, the Vikings have sacked opposing quarterbacks on 10.3 percent of their dropbacks. No team had a sack rate higher than 9 percent last season, so that would make the first-half Vikings pass rush just about the best unit in football. During the second half, though, things change. The Vikings have sacked the opposing signal-caller on just three of their 75 dropbacks, which produces a miserly sack rate of 4 percent. The worst pass rush in football last year sacked quarterbacks 4.3 percent of the time, so that's right — the Vikings have swung from an elite pass rush to a terrible one during the two halves of their games this year. If they can maintain their pass rush through a full game, well, they'll start winning.> http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id... Smart fellow, that Bill Walsh.

Sep-27-11		WannaBe: Looking ahead to tonight's 4 important games... Boston: Bedard (5-9, 3.50 ERA) @ Baltimore: Britton (11-10, 4.44 ERA) New York: Colon (8-10, 4.02) @ Tampa Bay: Hellickson (13-10, 2.90) Philadelphia: Oswalt (8-10, 3.86) @ Atlanta: Lowe (9-16, 4.92) St. Louis: Westbrook (12-9, 4.48) @ Houston: Sosa (3-5, 4.68) Derek Lowe is 9 and 16 ERA that is almost 5 (?!?!) what on earth happened to him?? Roy Oswalt have a losing record? And an ERA that is closer to 4 than to 3? What happened to him!?

Sep-27-11		Deus Ex Alekhina: Three words that should not go together: "first", "place", "Lions". A sure sign of the apocalypse. As for Doug Pfister, he is pfaking the pfunk; Mister Fister, or his ancestors, probably shortened his last name.

Sep-27-11		Jim Bartle: Four games, and not a single front-line starter, with the possible exception of Hellickson. Probably going to be a lot of runs scored. I assume the Yankees will be keeping some of their usual starters on the bench. It'll be interesting to see how many.

Sep-27-11		WannaBe: Injuries continue to mound for the BoSox, (no pun intended, or is it mount?) http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story...

Sep-27-11		Phony Benoni: Sounds more like injuries are on their plate. But don't worry. If worst comes to worst, they'll just use David Ortiz at catcher. At least nothing will get past him. No room.

Sep-27-11		I play the Fred: At this point in his career, can Ortiz get into, ot out of, a crouch?

Sep-27-11		Phony Benoni: Boston up 5-3 in the 4th, but they've already gone to the bullpen. Rays up 2-1 in the 5th on the Yankees, who seem to be using their regular lineup except for Jeter. In the NL, Philly 6-0 over Atlanta, St. Louis trailing Houston 1-0 in the third. Will the moonwalk continue?

Sep-27-11		WannaBe: Westbrook for St. Louis just got pulled, after giving up 5 ER in 2 1/3 innings. Wade Boggs is now pitching for StL. Yanks ahead 3-2 middle of the 6th.

Sep-27-11		Phony Benoni: Tampa wins 5-3. Boston's 8-4 lead has shrunk to 8-6, going into the night. Bosox reserve catcher Ryan Lavarnway, pressed into service tonight due to injuries (see <WannaBe>'s link above), has hit two home runs. Are we seeing the next Wally Pipp? Atlanta goes down quietly to Philly. St. Louis fell behind Houston 5-0, came back to tie the game, but are again behind 6-5. Tony LaRussa blesses his lucky stars for investing in Tums.

Sep-27-11		WannaBe: Doesn't look like Kemp will catch the batting average title... No triple crown there.

Sep-27-11		Phony Benoni: Both wild card races tied with one game to go. This is the kind of pulsating excitement MLB envisioned when they devised this playoff system. Y'all can stop yawning any moment now. Anyone for a Thursday doubleheader?

Sep-28-11		WannaBe: TB turned a triple (3rd in franchise history) in their game tonight, so, of course, I had to go and look it up, see which team had the most/least. http://tripleplays.sabr.org/ Have fun! =)

Sep-28-11		WannaBe: So... We look ahead to Wednesday's games: Boston: Lester (15-9, 3.49 ERA) @ Baltimore: Simon (4-9, 4.85 ERA) Yankees: TBA @ Tampa Bay: Price (12-13, 3.35) Philly: Blanton (1-2, 5.03) @ ATL: Hudson (16-10, 3.23) St. Louis: Carpenter (10-9, 3.59) @ Houston: Myers (7-13, 4.31) Got to favor Boston with Lester, not sure who the heck Yankees is going to put out there, favor Hudson for Atl. and take Carpenter for StL.

Sep-28-11		Jim Bartle: Looks likely all four wild-card contenders will win today. Playoffs (excuse me, play-in games) in both leagues. Didn't figure out that Youkilis is out for the year for Boston until last night. That's a big blow, even if he wasn't having a great year.

Sep-28-11		Phony Benoni: The triple play: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?c... I notice that <WannaBe> did not mention the Dodgers game. This has to be the walk-off win to end all walk-off wins, happening with two out in the bottom of the <10th>: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?c...

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