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 295 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-24-11    Phony Benoni: Or, if your memory stretches far enough back: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5L213Ip_D... Oct-24-11    WannaBe: Woooo... Rangers have a chance to make their boss look good by winning in 6. Musta been my post that lit the fire under their behind! Be sure to send me a ring if you do win in 6, heck even if 7. Oct-25-11    WannaBe: Courtesy of Greg Easterbrook, of espn.com, page 2. <Stats of the Week No. 3: If every pass a quarterback attempts clangs to the ground incomplete, his rating is 39.6 under the NFL system. In the Chiefs at Raiders contest, Kansas City quarterback Matt Cassel finished with a 38.3 passer rating, Oakland quarterback Kyle Boller with a 22.3 rating and Oakland quarterback Carson Palmer with a 17.3 rating.> And Matt Cassel is on the <WINNING> team!! Oct-25-11    Jim Bartle: Easterbrook is at espn.com? Great! I always loved his offbeat column when he was at Slate and at one other place later on, but I thought he'd quit writing Tuesday Morning Quarterback. Oct-25-11    WannaBe: <JB> Yeah, good read, got some really insightful, funny, knowledgeable people over at ESPN.com Gregg (http://search.espn.go.com/gregg-eas...) Jim Caple, Jayson Stark, David Fleming, to name a few of my favs. Oct-25-11    Jim Bartle: Controversy about whether Lions players taunted Matt Ryan when he was lying injured on the ground. I'm reminded of the terrible play in 1985 when Joe Theismann broke his leg. The Giants' players immediately signaled urgently to the Washington bench to get help on the field, and when Theismann was taken off in a stretcher, the entire Giants team lined up to give him encouragement as he passed. Oct-25-11    WannaBe: Were they encouraging Joe to join the TV booth? Oct-25-11    Travis Bickle: No they were encouraging Joe to get up so L.T. could break the other leg. ; P Oct-25-11    Jim Bartle: Easterbrook has all sorts of running jokes, such as referring to the Giants and Jets as Jersey/A and Jersey B, and calling the Titans the "Flaming Thumbtacks," named for the logo on their helmets. Then there's Hell's Sports Bar, which shows only the worst games of the day. Last Sunday it showed only Seattle-Cleveland and Dallas-St. Louis. Oct-25-11    WannaBe: <JB> Yep, he's still doing that. Oct-25-11    Phony Benoni: Was looking at Tony LaRussa's record on Retrosheet, and noticed his last playing appearance was as a pinch-runner for Ron Santo in a game early in 1973, with the Cubs trailing by a run in the 9th inning. Did the speed pay off? Not really. LaRussa did score the winning run--after the Expos walked three batters, including two with the bases loaded. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Oct-26-11    keypusher: <Phony Benoni: C.J. Wilson, tonight's starting pitcher for the Rangers: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20... My Left Foot.> His right foot is pretty mesmerizing too. Seems like he is about to split into three or four pieces. Oct-26-11    Jim Bartle: I missed game five, but I'm reading that LaRussa called the bullpen for Motte to warm up, but the coach misunderstood and got another guy up. And when LaRussa went to the mound to bring in Motte, the other came in. This seems unbelievable for a World Series game, that a manager would somehow fail to get the pitcher he really wanted ready and in the game. Oct-26-11    WannaBe: <JB> Yep, and the reliever that came in, was a real apple sauce. Oct-26-11    WannaBe: Nothing to see here, move along, come back tomorrow night, C'mon folks, let's keep moving here. Oct-26-11    WannaBe: Since Mother Nature was nice enough to extend baseball season for an extra day... Throwing a HR ball back: http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/story... Rarely, in any other sport does this happen, say, New England is hosting Oakland in the AFC Championship Game. Janikowski kicks his 6th 50+ yarder to win the game with no time left in the game. Do you throw the football back? If Boston hosts Lakers in game 7, and as time expires, Kobe throws the ball into the crowd, do you throw it back? I would like to conduct an unscientific poll. (Because I can't spell "consinsus"... =) Oct-26-11    WannaBe: Me, I'd keep the ball. Plus, if you read that article, you'd know why the Cubs are the Cubs (No championship for the last 10,000 years... :-) Oct-26-11    Travis Bickle: That jerk that trashed the Cubs tradition of throwing opposition homerun balls back onto the field, I'd like to slap that punks face! ; P Oct-26-11    Travis Bickle: The Chicago Cubs got the Rock Star of Baseball Operations with 2 World Series Winner Theo Epstein!! Shhh, be vawy quiet... I am hunting wabbits. ; P Press conference Part 1 http://youtu.be/nyYh3hur-Ag Part 2 http://youtu.be/iEfGsDpngzs Oct-27-11    Phony Benoni: Travis, if people really want to throw the ball back, fine with me. Personally, I dreamed of getting a ball, under any circumstances, and would have deeply resented being intimidated into giving it up. Oct-27-11    Travis Bickle: I appreciate your opinion Phony, thank you. I'll have to check with Theo & the new Cubs manual about throwing baseballs back onto the field. ; P Oct-27-11    WannaBe: <Travis Bickle> The old adage of "When in Rome, do as WannaBe does." is true all the time. Here is what I propose to you: You are Wrigley, Smitty Jones, playing for the Cardinals just hit the home run that both breaks the single season, and the career home run record. You caught that ball, what do you do? You caught it inside the stadium, fans are chanting "Throw it back!", what do you do? You caught the ball out on the street, next to the fire station, what do you do? Take off running hoping no one would mug you for the ball? Throw it over the wall so your own left fielder have to duck and run it down? Oct-27-11    Travis Bickle: Smitty Jones is a bum! I'd throw it back all the way to home plate!! LOL Oct-27-11    Jim Bartle: The clear solution is to arrive at the park (or out on Waverly) with a ball in your pocket. If you do get an opposition home run ball, make a surreptitious switch and throw the other one back on the field. You're welcome. Oct-27-11    WannaBe: <Jim Bartle> That, could/would be a rather ingenius solution, ('course, you went to Stanford.) During Barry's chase for the record, each time he was at the plate, they had specially marked ball. So, if <Travis Bickle> was to throw back the 'decoy', the real ball can still be authenticated! Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 295 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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