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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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Nov-14-10		Phony Benoni: One of the very first baseball statistics that amused me was Minnie Minoso leading the league in stolen bases and double plays grounded into during the same year (1953). Same problem as Bo, no doubt. It's one of the few baseball statistics that hasn't inflated or deflated much. It's been kept only since 1933, when the NL leader was Ernie Lombardi with 26. The leader in the NL in 2010 also had 26. http://www.baseball-reference.com/l... The current king seems to be Miguel Tejada, who led his league 5 times between 2004 and 2009. Ironically, the one year he didn't lead (2007) was also the one year he didn't make the All-Star team.

Nov-14-10		Jim Bartle: Remembering the Giants from 2002, I would have thought Benito Santiago held the double play record. He batted behind Bonds, and seemed to ground into a DP every time Bonds was walked intentionally. Or maybe I'm resentful because he did that his first two times up in the Series game I ever attended.

Nov-15-10		keypusher: Congratulations Travis!

Nov-15-10		keypusher: <Jim Bartle> <Phony Benoni> I see Lombardi is still tied for the NL record with 30...in the American League Jim Rice seems to have put the GIDP season record out of reach. What does it take to be a great GIDP'er? You need lots of at bats, you can't be too fast, you need a guy on base ahead of you, and I guess you have to put the ball in play but not really care where it goes. (Rice, incidentally, went to my high school, where he was a huge star in baseball and football. Radio was at my high school too.) There are slow catchers who rarely batted into double plays because they were careful about not grounding to the middle of the field with a guy on first. But hitting at the bottom of the order, they may not have had a man on first too often. Santiago maxed out with 21 with the Padres, but he had 19 a couple of times with the Giants. I guess that's on the high side. Of course, the guy ahead of him was getting to first at a ridiculously high frequency...could be the most disciplined hitter in baseball would have batted into 19 double plays behind Bonds.

Nov-15-10		keypusher: ...correcting my last, I see Tejada had 32 in 2008, breaking Lombardi + some other guy's NL record. Given that Lombardi is supposed to have been the slowest guy who ever held down a regular job in the major leagues, quite a feat for Miguel.

Nov-15-10		Travis Bickle: <keypusher> Thank you. ; P

Nov-15-10		Jim Bartle: Albert Pujols after ten full seasons, his average year: 156 games, .331, 41 homers, 123 RBI, 118 runs, .624 slugging average. His worst year in each category: .312, 32 homers, 103 RBI, 99 runs, .561 slugging average.

Nov-15-10		playground player: <Jim Bartle> Joe Torre, when he was playing for the Mets, once grounded into four DPs in one game. He said it was Felix Millan's fault for getting on base in front of him. <Phony Benoni> I saw Bo Jackson's last game as an uninjured baseball player. He was with the Royals. He got up to bat three times and hit a homer each time--and each homer went higher and farther than the one before, a la Ruth and Mantle. And then, making a spectacular catch in the outfield, he trashed his knee... and that was pretty much that for Bo's baseball career. Oh, what might've been!

Nov-15-10		Jim Bartle: I'll give you another might-have-been: Kerry Wood. He's still around, but what if he had not been injured? <"Oh man, nothing that big should move that fast," said Royals Hall of Famer and former hitting coach John Mayberry.> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ht... I assume that means the KC Royals Hall of Fame, not the Cooperstown one.

Nov-15-10		chancho: How about those Patriots? They sure pounded the beejeesus out of the Steelers, eh? :-)

Nov-15-10		Jim Bartle: "Joe Torre, when he was playing for the Mets, once grounded into four DPs in one game. He said it was Felix Millan's fault for getting on base in front of him." Somebody's got to have the team wrong there--it has to be Milwaukee. That's where Joe Torre and Felix Mantilla were teammates. In fact I doubt Mantilla got on base four straight times more than twice in his career. Felix Millan, not Felix Mantilla? Never mind.

Nov-15-10		keypusher: <Travis Bickle: <keypusher> Thank you.> Now we have to see if we can beat you without a quarterback.

Nov-15-10		Travis Bickle: <keypusher> Oh a Miami guy. I was listening to TheScore, a Chicago Sports Radio show and a report is out your major pass rusher is probably out with a hip injury also. Nothings for certain in the NFL especially this season. A short week, see ya Thursday night! ; P

Nov-15-10		OhioChessFan: <JB: But for all the highlights he really never looked like a great baseball player: lifetime .250 average, 141 homers, 300 runs, 415 RBIs in what would be the equivalent of five full seasons. Good but not great.> Beyond overrated as a baseball player. He ran up a wall and hit a long home run in an All Star game. I never got the legend about him.

Nov-15-10		Jim Bartle: OCF: I think it was the incredible potential he showed, and the spectacular plays he did make. I remember he led off one All-Star game with a long home run, I think off the Giants' Rick Reuschel. Had to be a big part of the legend, though some of the throws and running up and down the wall are pretty impressive as well.

Nov-15-10		Jim Bartle: I hear Miami is thinking of starting Tom Matte at QB.

Nov-15-10		Phony Benoni: Why would they start an old Colt? Bring back Earl Morrall! By the way, we've discussed the Joe Torre GIDP Festival before. It was with the Mets, hitting behind Felix Millan: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/...

Nov-15-10		Phony Benoni: On the other hand, Dick McAuliffe of the 1968 Tigers went through the entire season without hitting into a double play. No, he wasn't very fast. He was batting leadoff, following Ray Oyler (.135) and the pitcher. About the only time he ever came up with a man on base was when Earl Wilson was pitching or Gates Brown had just pinch-hit.

Nov-15-10		Phony Benoni: This looks like the Bo Jackson game <playground player> referred to: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... The injury seems to have happened in the Yankees sixth during an inside-the-park home run by, of all people, Deion Sanders.

Nov-15-10		Jim Bartle: McAuliffe still had 56 RBI that year, not bad for a leadoff guy. I read a book, can't remember which one, which described the Braves' unease when Deion was called up to the team. They were worried about his prima donna behavior from the NFL. Turns out he was a great teammate, hardworking, no showboating or hogging the spotlight. I liked Rick Dempsey's comment after getting run over by Bo at the plate: "I held him to fewer yards than Brian Bosworth."

Nov-16-10		playground player: <Phony Benoni> Yes, I think you found the game I was talking about. Up until he wrecked his knee, it was an astounding night for Bo. <Jim Bartle> Felix Mantilla hit better for the Mets than he did for the Braves, and better for the Red Sox than he did for the Mets. But as PB's scoresheet shows, Felix Millan was indeed Torre's partner in crime that night.

Nov-16-10		Phony Benoni: <JB: Somebody's got to have the team wrong there--it has to be Milwaukee. That's where Joe Torre and Felix Mantilla were teammates. In fact I doubt Mantilla got on base four straight times more than twice in his career.> He did it at least three times for the Mets in 1962: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... In the other two 4-for-5 performances, he made an out in the middle of the sequence. (Am I boring you yet?

Nov-16-10		Jim Bartle: I just thought it was funny that I read the post, and started looking up Torre and Mantilla. It was only later I saw it was Millan, not Mantilla.

Nov-16-10		Travis Bickle: Hey Phony now this guy could broadcast a ballgame & have a great time too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4jw...

Nov-17-10		playground player: <Phony Benoni> Boring??? "Everything you ever wanted to know about Felix Mantilla, but were afraid to ask"--how could that possibly be boring? But I wonder which team holds the record for having players named Felix... Let's see you solve that one! <PB>, <Jim Bartle> Hey, guys, visit my brand-new blog. See my forum for details. Maybe I can even get a link to work.

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