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 376 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> May-06-12    WannaBe: For sure, that's just the Angels, don't think I'd find anyone named Dodger who have played for Los Angeles or Brooklyn. Anyone named Lyon play(ed) for Detroit? =) May-06-12    Jim Bartle: I hear the Cleveland Browns even had a coach for a while named Brown! Unfortunately Reggie Cleveland and Daryl Boston never played for their home teams. Nathan Detroit never left gambling to play baseball. May-06-12    OhioChessFan: I thought it was a longer time, but Curtis Pride did play 4 games for the Yankees. http://www.baseball-reference.com/p... May-06-12    WannaBe: <JB> LOL. <OCF> Nice one! Pride of the Yankees. =) May-06-12    Jim Bartle: Curtis Pride was deaf. I remember when he got his first hit (or a key hit early in his career), he stood calmly on second as the crowd (he was one the visiting team, as I remember) gave him a huge ovation. The shortstop came over and told him he should doff his cap to the crowd. Nice moment. May-06-12    WannaBe: This day in baseball: Herman Ruth hits his first home run for Boston, against the recently renamed New York Yankees. "Michael" Vick replaces George Halas (Yes, that George) in outfield for the Yankees. Courtesy of Tim Wilhelm, UCLA baseball announcer. =) May-06-12    WannaBe: UCLA is hosting Purdue, the Bruins won the first 2 games, and led by 5 into the top of the 9th. Purdue scored some runs, and now, with 2 outs, they've strung together 7 straight hits! It's now 15-10 Purdue, good football game. (Yep, Purdue scored 10 runs in the bottom of the 9th... sent 15 batters to the plate. Ouch!) May-06-12    Phony Benoni: What do you do when your DH goes 0-for-8 with five strikeouts? You put him in to pitch! http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/gametr... May-06-12    Phony Benoni: By the way, here's the last time an AL non-pitcher was credited with the win: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Irony, irony. May-06-12    Jim Bartle: Oh man, must be going nuts in Boston. Lose in 13 one day, lose in 17 the next. And unable to hit against a non-pitcher. May-06-12    WannaBe: Bring back Francona. May-06-12    Jim Bartle: Start drinking again? May-06-12    WannaBe: Do the 'major League', sacrifice buckets o' fried chicken!! :-)) May-07-12    WannaBe: In a 'strange' scheduling twist, J. Weaver will go for his back-to-back no-hit bid, against the same team, and the same pitcher. (not that pitchers gets to hit in AL. Unless you play for the BoSox or Baltimore and is asked to pitch... =) May-07-12    Phony Benoni: Here's the last game in which both teams used a position player to pitch: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... And this was sort of cheating, since it was one of those last game of the season fiascos when anything goes. But how often do you get to see two Hall-of-Fame playing managers pitch in the same game? By the way, Sisler actually came up as a pitcher, and a pretty good one. He maintained that his Greatest Day in Baseball was a 2-1 pitching victory over Walter Johnson. May-07-12    WannaBe: Hitless streak is now 10 innings for J.W. May-07-12    WannaBe: Discrepencies in that game, and it was only 8 innings, darkness? Weather?? May-07-12    WannaBe: There goes the no-hitter, and back-to-back no hitter's record is still safe! (No pun intended.) May-07-12    Phony Benoni: At first I thought darkness, since the sun sets early in October. But the game lasted less than two hours. So maybe some weather rolled in. Or maybe both teams just wanted to go on home, and the umpire didn't mind--especially after two innings of watching Ty Cobb pitch and probably getting an argument on every call. May-07-12    WannaBe: Doing a short 'research', will share my finding soon. May-07-12    WannaBe: Okay, here we go, all data comes from this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o... and for the sake of interleague play, if pitcher bats, it counts as NL (by rule, or by home stadium.) and that list counted combined no-hitters. (Astros-Yankees) Also, F. Liriano (Twins) have no-hit (ChiSox) and been no-hit. (Angels, last week. =) Since the start of DH, 1973, here is a total of no-hitters: Under DH rule (AL) 52 Under no-DH rule (NL) 39 Year(s) with least no-hitter (0): '82, '85, '89, '00, '05 Year with the most no-hitter (7): '90, AL 5, NL 2 So, would one think, that since pitchers can't hit, that NL would have more no-hitters? =) May-07-12    OhioChessFan: That is surprising. And it's not even close. Here's my theory why, off the top of my head. If a DH has a BA that is 100 points higher than a pitcher, that would increase the team's average by about 11 points. I suppose the energy spent by the pitcher batting more than offsets the better opposition. May-08-12    WannaBe: This one is a bit easier, I did not need my spreadsheet to do the math for me... Same idea, as previously, but Perfect Games since DH era. American League 8 National League 4 May-08-12    Phony Benoni: <WannaBe> You have a little faulty information. The losing pitcher in Weaver's no-hitter was Liam Hendricks, not Liriano. http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/gametr... I checked the totals for no-hitters in the pre-DH years of 1901-1972. The totals: AL, 68; NL, 69. Oddly enough, 1972 was the first time the NL had more no-hitters since 1909. At times, the AL's margin got as high as 60%-40%. But it seems safe to conclude that, over the long haul, equal playing conditions lead to an equal number of no-hitters. So why does the DH lead to more no-hitters? My guess would be that the DH encourages building teams of sluggers rather than small ball teams. A slugging team is more likely to have a higher batting average overall, but against a dominating pitcher the small ball team is more likely to scratch out a hit here and there. May-08-12    WannaBe: <Phony Benoni> Thank you for the correction, Liriano pitched the game before the no-no. (I am now so embarasssssed =) Absolutely fascinating, pre-DH, the number of no-hitters are virtually 'equal'! Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 376 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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