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 377 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> May-08-12    Jim Bartle: SF and St. Louis threw no-hitters at each on consecutive days in 1968 (Perry first, then Washburn). I wonder if that's been done before. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Gibson lost that first one, the only run a home run to Ron Hunt, one of only two he hit that year. Sort of typical for Gibson's 9 losses that year. May-08-12    WannaBe: <Jim Bartle> Check that list on Wiki in my post last night, there have been no-hitters on the same day, and consecutive days. May-08-12    Jim Bartle: I see two no-hitters on the same day (I remember that), and on consecutive days. But Perry/Washburn is the only one I see between the same two teams on consecutive days. May-08-12    WannaBe: <JB> Oh, same 2 teams! (I gotta start reading these posts most carefully. =) May-08-12    Jim Bartle: I wasn't clear. May-08-12    Phony Benoni: <JB> Look back to 1917. Ernie Koob and Bob Groom of the St. Louis Browns both no-hit the White Sox on May 5 and 6. However, it wasn't consecutive games; Groom's was the second game of a double-header. May-08-12    Phony Benoni: And, before anybody asks, here is the record for total bases in a game: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... May-08-12    WannaBe: What is the record for total bases? May-08-12    OhioChessFan: You'll find the answer here: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... May-09-12    WannaBe: Ya bunch of smarty alexes!! :-)) May-09-12    Jim Bartle: I was switching channels and saw the first inning homer, then later the 4th one. But I thought it was Hamilton's second, and didn't pay that much attention. Both were line drives, not high flies at all. May-09-12    Jim Bartle: I have a scoring question. Last week one of the Tigers hit a really hot shot/line drive just to the left of the White Sox shortstop, who made a sensational play by short-hopping the ball (first bounce) and spinning around and going to his knees as he caught it. He got up and had plenty of time to throw to first, but pulled the first baseman off the bag and was given an error. Should this be an error? If he had just not fielded the hit, there's no chance he'd have gotten an error. But having made the hard play, he screwed up the easy one. May-09-12    WannaBe: I think the fact, that the throw pulled the firstman off the bag is what warranted the error to be given. If the throw had been on target and the runner beat it out (boy, there was a couple close one last night at Dodgers game.) it would be ruled an infield hit. Plus, according to your description, 'he had plenty of time'... May-09-12    Phony Benoni: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/downloads/y2... Rule 10.12 defines "error" for the Official Scorer. There doesn't seem to be clear guidance on this situation, but I think the error is justified because the batter would not have reached base without the misplay. This may seem an injustice, but there are plenty of analogies in other sports. Say a football receiver makes a incredible catch, continues to run down the field, then loses the ball. It's still a fumble, even though most receivers would never have had the chance to fumble. May-09-12    Jim Bartle: I agree reluctantly. He made the play and the throw beat the runner by two steps, but it pulled the first baseman way off the base. I've seen some really bad fielding this year already, as well as a spectacular attempt to grab a homer by a left fielder who hit the wall at full speed. In particular I'm surprised at how poor infielders are at rundowns, especially with runners on first and third. Way too often everybody is safe or the runner on third scores. Can't remember the teams, but last night I saw a second base throw the ball away going to third and allowing a run plus the other runner (who should have been out) to end up on third. May-09-12    WannaBe: What's wrong with 2 - 4 - 3 - 6 - 1 - 8 - 2 - 5 - 1 - 7 - 10 run down? Your little score box can't fit all the numbers? =)) May-09-12    WannaBe: How would you score this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH-... May-09-12    Jim Bartle: "How about that?" I love Mel Allen. Hilarious. The rundown I was talking about started with a single to right, and the rightfielder ended up covering second. Had it gone a different way the scoring could have started and ended with a 9. May-09-12    OhioChessFan: <What's wrong with 2 - 4 - 3 - 6 - 1 - 8 - 2 - 5 - 1 - 7 - 10 run down?> Unless it's slow pitch softball, I am having a little trouble with the <10> May-09-12    WannaBe: That's where the ball hits the poor bat boy/girl in the kister when the throw goes wide. =)) May-10-12    Phony Benoni: <OCF> "10" is obviously the catcher. The Wabbit is a computer guru, and sometimes reverts to binary. May-10-12    WannaBe: Here's another one for <Jim Bartle>, Scott van Slyke was called up from AAA Alburquerque by the Dodgers, son of Andy. Got his 1st MLB base hit as a PH. May-10-12    Jim Bartle: I can only hope he's as witty as his father: "They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks." http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quo... May-10-12    WannaBe: ESPN have reported, MLB may consider banning looking-third-throw-first move. Starting next season. May-10-12    Jim Bartle: I think they should ban fake throws to all bases, as they do to first base. Watching the Yankees game last night, announcer Al Leiter brought up something obvious I'd never thought about--you can't steal home when there are two strikes, at least with two outs, because the batter can't let a strike go by. Alex Rodriguez was on third with Teixeira up, and the shift on. The third baseman was at normal shortstop position and the pitcher was using the windup. He had such a huge lead it looked as if he could stroll home with the run. Rays won a three-run homer in the ninth by Matt Joyce, first time I've ever seen a player injured while hitting a homer. http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?c... Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 377 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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