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 38 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Nov-20-08    Phony Benoni: <WannaBe> Which variation did you have in mind for Wagner? The Heinrich Maneuver? Nov-20-08    WannaBe: Wagner -- Ride of the Valkyre Variation! :-)) Nov-20-08    Phony Benoni: Which brings to mind Johnny Carson's famous Carnak routine, in which he would answers questions sealed in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall's porch since noon today without seeing the questions. Answer: <9W>. Question: Herr Wagner, do you spell your name with a "V"? Nov-22-08    Phony Benoni: With the interest it has sparked, I hate to give the answer to the trivia question so soon--but life must go on. Those five players were the first to go undefeated on board 1 in an Olympiad: London 1927: Maroczy (HUN) +6 =6 -0 Grunfeld (AUS)+6 =7 -0 Hague 1928: Wagner (GER) +3 =13 -0 Hamburg 1930 Rubinstein (POL) +13 =4 -0 Alekhine (FRA) +9 =0 -0 Yes, Hague 1928 was a relatively weaker event, and Wagner's score wasn't quite as impressive as the others. But he still didn't have to auf any gegebens. Nov-23-08    WannaBe: You know, just for giggles (and being somewhat bored...) I looked up your name in Googles, and came across a J.D.B. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~vbra... Nov-23-08    Phony Benoni: For a scarier view, you might look here: http://www.michess.org/webzine/davi... I should point out that the picture is a copy of a photocopy of a photocopy, but that's no excuse. The worst part is that it was taken after a tournament which I won. Imagine what I look like normally! Nov-23-08    WannaBe: I saw that picture/page but wasn't quite sure that was you or not... Nov-23-08    Phony Benoni: I know; it looks pretty terrible. It was also taken in 1989, when I weighed about 60 pounds more than I do now. This is probably silly, but I feel the need to show you a slightly better and more recent photo (though it has nothing to do with chess): http://jukeboys.topcities.com/mclon... I'm the one without the guitar. Nov-24-08    WannaBe: <Phony Benoni: ... I'm the one without the guitar.> Oh, great, now please turn around so we can see you in that second pic!! Nov-24-08    Benzol: <Phony Benoni> Great to finally put a face to the real person instead of thinking of you as Dr Honeydew's assistant Bekar. Nov-25-08    Phony Benoni: Solution to Sneaky's problem at Kibitzer's Café : <1.Qb7!> Nov-30-08    Phony Benoni: Don't mind me. I'm just being obscure again. Nov-30-08    hedgeh0g: Phony Benoni! Dec-15-08    chessamateur: http://www.baseball-fever.com/showt... I happened to find this after you posed that question on got me curious. Thought you might find it interesting. Dec-16-08    Phony Benoni: <Chessamateur> Thanks for the link; it provides the same conclusions I'm coming up with. <Ed Doheny> is an interesting case. Take a look at this article: http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm... This guy would have scared Drysdale and Gibson, not to mention Claude Frizzel Bloodgood. Dec-26-08    Everyone: You are the funniest kibitzer <Phony Benoni> coz Everyone voted for you! ;-) Dec-26-08    Phony Benoni: <Everyone> That's what I thought too, but apparently odd things happen when the opposition includes Technical Draw W. Bush. Dec-26-08    Phony Benoni: Naturally, while researching the above, I ran into players with a lot of games against each other. What's the record? Well, I think we all know who the leaders probably are, but what about the top ten? Here is a tentative list I've put together. Have fun finding all those obvious ones that I've missed! 1. Anatoli Karpov vs. Garry Kasparov (187 games) 2. Viswanathan Anand vs. Vassily Ivanchuk (109) 3. Mikhail Botvinnik vs. Vasily Smyslov (106) 4. Anatoli Karpov vs. Jan Timman (103) 5. John Cochrane vs. Howard Staunton (93) 6. Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais vs. Alexander McDonnell (92) 7. Alexander Alekhine vs. Efim Bogoljubov (89) 8. Alexander Alekhine vs. Max Euwe (86) 9. Anatoli Karpov vs. Viktor Korchnoi (82) 10.Lajos Portisch vs. Boris Spassky (80) Dec-26-08    MostlyAverageJoe: Here's the top ten according to my quick scan: 187   Anatoli Karpov - Garry Kasparov 138   Viswanathan Anand - Vladimir Kramnik 122   Garry Kasparov - Vladimir Kramnik 122   Anatoli Karpov - Viktor Korchnoi 109   Vassily Ivanchuk - Viswanathan Anand 106   Mikhail Botvinnik - Vasily Smyslov 103   Anatoli Karpov - Jan Timman 94    Peter Leko - Vladimir Kramnik 93    Howard Staunton - John Cochrane 92    Alexander McDonnell - Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais Dec-27-08    Phony Benoni: Well, outside of forgetting to look at Kramnik, I didn't do too badly. But how did I ever get only 82 for Karpov and Korchnoi? Dec-27-08    sneaky pete: <PB> We have only 85 games (of the 88 played) between McDonnell and De La Bourdonnais in this database, the other 7 given here are dupes and phonies. Did you know that in 1850, in Paris, Kieseritzky and Schulten played a match of 151 games? Dec-27-08    MostlyAverageJoe: <Phony Benoni: But how did I ever get only 82 for Karpov and Korchnoi?> Dunno. CG's count agrees with mine (which was taken off the downloaded zipfiles): http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Dec-27-08    Phony Benoni: <sneaky pete> I didn't know that, but looked it up and see that Kieseritzky won by +107 -34 =10. Naturally, with his luck, we don't seem to have any of the games in the database. I don't know how they did it. My own record is 61, and I just about gave up tournaments to stop playing the guy. I don't even like to play rematches in Internet blitz chess. <MAJ> Just a stupid blunder on my part. I was compiling a spreadsheet for some other purpose, and simply entered the wrong number. Dec-31-08    Phony Benoni: A pleasant memory inspired by today's puzzle: <18.?" click for larger view From one of my postal games many moons ago. I spent a week in agony hoping that Black would fall into the trap and play 17...b6. Jan-01-09    TheAlchemist: Happy New Year! Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 38 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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