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 330 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-07-12    Jim Bartle: Another advantage to the man-to-man defense vs. the zone: you can immediately tell if the other team has an extra man. Jan-07-12    King Death: <Jim Bartle> Yup. It's kind of baffling that nobody caught on to that. Jan-07-12    Jim Bartle: Sports Illustrated's baseball guy says only Larkin for the HOF this year, with Raines, Bagwell and McGriff close. He also thinks maybe Jack Morris is being held to too high a standard, and should be in. I think Raines should definitely go in, and McGriff shouldn't. In the story Verducci writes about steroids and Bagwell, though nothing was ever close to proven. Is this the standard line on Bagwell, that he used but was never caught? http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20... Jan-07-12    playground player: <Jim Bartle> Obviously Casey Stengel knew Eddie Robinson was going to have a good game, once Al Aber was lifted. The secret of being a successful manager is to be psychic. Jan-07-12    WannaBe: 5PM Pacific time can't come fast enough... You got all your hootch stocked up ready to go? If not, you can borrow my 1/16 leftover bottle of Glenlivit, probably will last you through the coin-toss and kick-off return. =) Jan-07-12    WannaBe: http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/blog/_/... Great article, albeit, it only focused on one bowl, but similiar activities can surely be found at other BCS Bowls. (e.g. Fiesta in Ariz. got into biiiiiig trouble this year.) For those who do not know this, Bowl games are <NOT> NCAA sanctioned. You don't see the big blue NCAA logo on the field as you would for DI-AA, DII, or DIII, or NAIA play-offs. Or D-I basketball tournaments, where the big logo is very visible, and you get to see the 'Student-Athletes' commercial touting how they go into a profession other than sports. The winner Monday night, between LSU-'Bama will not hoist up a wooden plaque/trophy proclaiming them the National Champions. Instead, they will lift up the crystal football-shaped Sears trophy (If Sears fold, BCS will need a new sponsor.) The Division I football 'Champion' does not exist, in theory... Kinda like Bigfoot, or Loch Ness Monster, seen in pictures and videos only. Okay, everyone got that? Test Tuesday morning, after the football Championship game. Jan-07-12    Jim Bartle: This BCS championship game seems to take place so long after the other games that, except for fans of the two teams, it becomes an afterthought. What I would do is set up a usual bowl setup, using conference tie-ins as often as possible (back to Pac 10 vs. Big 10 in the Rose Bowl again, for example). Then after all those games I'd choose two teams to play a week later for the official national championship. Jan-07-12    Shams: <Jim Bartle> <Then after all those games I'd choose two teams to play a week later for the official national championship.> Jim, America doesn't want you to choose, it wants the teams to choose through a p------. Jan-07-12    Jim Bartle: You think America can choose better than I can? You shove your p-word where it belongs. I see New Orleans plays Detroit tonight. Wonder what the combined passing yards will be? I say 700. Unless the conditions are really windy or it's snowing or something. Jan-07-12    WannaBe: The Mercedes-Benz Superdome is expected to turn on the AC on full blast, so Detroit can feel right at home. Very nice hosts, these New Orleanians are. Jan-07-12    Deus Ex Alekhina: The "upset-minded" Detroit Lions. Always wanted to use that phrase. Also wanted to use "St Louis Football Cardinals", but they skedaddled to AZ. Jan-07-12    WannaBe: Does <OhioChessFan> root for Cincy or Clevy? Anybody know? Jan-07-12    Jim Bartle: Deux Ex Alekhina: I vaguely remember back to the Chicago Cardinals, a pretty good team led by running back Ollie Matson in the 50s. The St. Louis Football Cardinals had a pretty good team for a number of years with Jim Hart at quarterback, Jackie Smith at TE, and Larry Wilson at safety. According to Sports Illustrated they were also a team torn by racial dissension around 1970, with wide receiver Sonny Randle supposed to be culprit number one. Jan-07-12    WannaBe: Never seen such poor tackling... Never. Jan-07-12    OhioChessFan: Cincy fan. Hard to admit after that performance. Jan-07-12    Phony Benoni: As for the Lions ... well, New Orleans has a good offense. But surely not that good. Jan-07-12    WannaBe: My team didn't even get the chance to play game number 17... Jan-07-12    WannaBe: Be interesting next week, when N.O. travels to S.F. You have the league's #4 defence http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/t... (Number 1 in NFC) going against #1 offence in the league! http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/t... S.F. gave up 3 rushing TDs in 16 games http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/t... and 20 passing TDs (but also got 23 INTs) http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/t... N.O. have the #1 passing offence. Period http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/t... Scoring 46 TDs against 14 INTs (before tonight's game) The passing game for N.O. is 334 yards per game! We will see what happens when the immovable object meets the avalanche... Jan-07-12    Phony Benoni: Right now I'd favor the Saints over the 49ers, but more because I prefer experienced teams in playoff situations. Houston goes to Balltimore, right? Gotta go with the Ravens there for the same reason. Unlike the Bengals, they won't make silly mistakes or quit if the going gets rough. Jan-07-12    King Death: <Jim Bartle> A point <Phony Benoni> brought up a little while ago on Alan Trammell was that he didn't really have one outstanding skill, unlike Ozzie Smith. It seems like we can say the same thing about Barry Larkin and Tim Raines. Raines was also hurt by playing his best seasons when both Molitor and Rickey Henderson were in their primes. If his career had started 10 years earlier, he'd have made it in way before now. Jan-08-12    Jim Bartle: I don't see the 49ers keeping up with New Orleans. They won't score much, and won't be able to stop the Saints completely, maybe not slow them down much t all. Jan-08-12    OhioChessFan: The Bengals constantly overran plays on defense. It always blows me away how often misdirection works. I saw it repeatedly in the Orange Bowl this week and saw it over and over yesterday. How hard is it to tell a person with contain responsibility to stay home? "Look, you're 10 yards behind the play, you are <not> going to make the tackle anyway. Maintain your responsibility." Of course the announcers touted how good the running backs were. Back in the day, Chris Perry had a huge game against Ohio State his senior year. There were about 5 plays where Perry ran into the middle of the line, was stopped, the entire defense collapsed around him, and he bounced outside for a big gain. That game was the primary reason the Bengals drafted him in the first round. A game where he put up big numbers because of fundamentally poor defense. Perry was basically a first round bust, though injuries played a part in it. Jan-08-12    OhioChessFan: I agree <JB> SanFran has seemed to me all year to be less than their numbers. However, a NO kind of offense <can> have a really bad day, and you never know when a pass oriented team might give up some fluke interceptions. Jan-08-12    Jim Bartle: Detroit dropped a couple of interceptions yesterday, including one which would have been taken back for a TD. Plus there was the quick whistle on Brees' forward fumble which cost the Lions an easy TD. During the second half it looked as if NO was going to win no matter what; the Detroit offense was good to stay in it. That Johnson sure is a tough receiver. Anybody see the lineman's interception and TD for Texas in the first game? Amazing catch. I doubt many receivers could have held onto that ball at such a short distance. Jan-08-12    WannaBe: Let's examine the 3 losses N.O. had in the regular season, game 1, Thursday night season kick-off game, 42-34 at Green Bay, no shame there. Second loss, week 6 @ Tampa Bay 26-20, could have won that game, just one touch down. Third loss, week 8 @ St. Luis, 31-21. The losses to T.B. and St.L. are head-scratchers. Wonder if the team played down to their opposition, or what on earth happened. 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