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 292 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-17-11    Jim Bartle: I still think that Neuheisel came up too fast for his own good. Had he been an assistant for a few more years, meaning if Colorado had given the open job to the obvious candidate on the staff after McCartney quit in the mid-90s (I think his name was Simmons), he may have benefitted from working out of the spotlight until he was ready. I don't know how many men, no matter how talented, are ready to be head coaches at major universities at 34. Oct-17-11    WannaBe: <Shams: ... Tough to fail at your own alma mater.> Actually, I think the opposite, look at Walt Hazzard for basketball at UCLA, Ralph Friedgen at Maryland, (after his firing, he got so mad, he burned his Maryland diploma! http://espn.go.com/college-football...) High expectations abound, especially if you are the son/daughter/graduate of a successful program. Oct-17-11    Shams: <WannaBe> I should have been more clear, I meant that it must really suck when you fail at your alma mater, not that it would be easier to succeed there. Oct-17-11    WannaBe: <Shams> Agreed! Good thing my alma mater have very low expectation of me, as long as I keep giving them donation money. =) Oct-18-11    Phony Benoni: About ready to come out of my hole now. Wow, was that a bad weekend! Rangers and Cardinals. Overall, I say the Rangers have a more balanced and potent lineup. One advantage they have over most AL teams is not having a full-time DH. The Tigers were considering moving Miguel Cabrera to third base in the NL park to get their regular DH Victor Martinez into the game at first. Neither side has an outstanding starting staff. Not only will you not see any complete games, you may not see a lot of starters qualify for a win on the 5 inning rule. Rangers seem to have the deeper bullpen, especially in the late innings. I know some guys are going to hate this, but St. Louis' big edge is at manager. A short series will favor the Rangers; a long series the Cardinals. I think it will be a short series, Texas clinching at home. LaRussa never plays long serieses anyway. Oct-18-11    Jim Bartle: "LaRussa never plays long serieses anyway." Ain't that the truth. Five series, never even reached a Game 6. And he lost three of those. Neither of these teams looks like any kind of powerhouse, and neither did SF or Texas last year. Not their fault, though. The real powerful teams like Philadelphia keep slipping up. Oct-18-11    Shams: <Jim Bartle> You don't think the Rangers have looked dominating? I guess you're looking at their rotation and projecting out a few years? Not a fan of either team, but I have to pull for the Cards. Can't have the Rangers getting one in the trophy case before Seattle. :) Oct-19-11    WannaBe: What do these players have in common? Arthur Rhodes, Bengie Molina, Chris Ray, Jim Bruske, Lonnie Smith, Sid Monge, Johnny Schmitz, Jack Kramer. Oct-19-11    Phony Benoni: None of them ever played in the World Series for the Seattle Mariners? Oct-19-11    WannaBe: Congratulations, <Phony Benoni>, you've just won 2 days supply of Rice-O-Roni. (I'm sure <Shams> love that little 'comment' by you. =) Let's go to our next contestant... Can anyone else give a better 'answer' than <Phony Benoni>? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Oct-19-11    Phony Benoni: OK, I looked it up. Win-Win situation, right? Oct-19-11    WannaBe: Yep!! =) Oct-19-11    Jim Bartle: Last year Bengie Molina played half the year for the Giants, the other half for Texas. So he'd played for both World Series teams. Rhodes did the same this year. Maybe that's a list of players who had done that. Oct-19-11    Jim Bartle: That should read "Rhodes will do that this year." Rhodes has been playing so long, it seems likely he would have done this before. Oct-19-11    Shams: <Rhodes has been playing so long, it seems likely he would have done this before.> <Jim> I don't follow baseball very closely but I did a triple take when I saw Arthur Rhodes take the mound the other night. I'll never forget the ALCS Game 5 in 2001, where Rhodes-y just grooved a "still life with grapefruit" pitch to David Justice who crushed it to the upper deck, ripping hearts out in Mariner Nation. It was brutal. Hard to believe he's still finding work ten years later. <Phony Benoni> Droll, Beaker, very droll. I'm sending Ichiro to rough you up. Oct-19-11    Jim Bartle: If Ichiro ever punched anybody, he'd be running to one side to get to the next guy or next place as he did it (to judge from his batting style). Oct-19-11    WannaBe: Today is a good day, game 1 of the world series, Thursday, is going to be a great day, world series, <AND> UCLA-Arizona football!! =) Oct-19-11    Jim Bartle: Rhodes was already a solid veteran in 2001. He's 42 years old. Maybe he wants to beat out Jesse Orosco. Oct-19-11    WannaBe: Satchel page better watch out. Berkman just advanced to second base on that fly ball... Oct-19-11    WannaBe: 3-2, going to the top o' ninth. Oct-20-11    Shams: Hopkins gets to keep his belt after all: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20... He is one lucky duck and is going to look really bad squirming out of giving Dawson a rematch. Oct-20-11    WannaBe: Top 'o Ninth, Rangers making a lot of noise, 2nd and 3rd, no out! Oct-20-11    I play the Fred: (singing) Rangers in the ninth, two sacrifices... Oct-21-11    Jim Bartle: Announcers on my channel were Gary Thorne and Rick Sutcliffe. They acted as if the Rangers' two in the ninth were some kind of monumental comeback for the ages. It was impressive but nothing really out of the ordinary, aided by Pujols not cutting off the throw from center and a great steal by Kinsler. Oct-21-11    Jim Bartle: Wait a minute! The Hopkins-Dawson fight was a Technical Draw? 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