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 450 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-12-12    Phony Benoni: <nescio> Any help you are able to give will be much appreciated. I suppose I am of a different mindset than you. Ever since my youth, I wanted to have a copy of every game ever played in my possession. Perhaps that's why I became a librarian. Dec-13-12    OhioChessFan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-MW... Dec-13-12    Phony Benoni: What's the problem? His team got the rebound, didn't they? Dec-13-12    Jim Bartle: There's already an App State? Wonder what the curriculum is? Dec-14-12    WannaBe: I know about Texas Western (UTEP today) but I had no idea/did not know about this story. Great Read. Period. http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas... Dec-14-12    Jim Bartle: Didn't read it, but I assume it's about all the problems Mississippi State had to leave the state and play Loyola (the eventual champion), which had black players. An amazing story, sneaking out of story. Dec-14-12    WannaBe: <JB> You are correct!! Dec-14-12    WannaBe: Sanchez resigned with Tigers! Dec-14-12    Phony Benoni: Say it ain't so! We were figuring he'd play on after the time control. Dec-14-12    WannaBe: Allow me to 'duplicate' post: Sanchez re-signed with Tigers. There! =) Dec-16-12    Phony Benoni: Travis, if you can hear me, I'm thinking of switching sides for the Bears - Lions games. I want to root for a team that's at least trying. 2 turnovers for touchdowns. Two turnovers on the five-yard line. They couldn't beat the Bad News Bears playing like that. Dec-16-12    Jim Bartle: Didn't watch that carefully, but it sure looked to me as if the Bears got screwed on several pass interference/no interference calls. So did the announcers. Dec-16-12    Travis Bickle: <Phony Benoni> Sorry to hear about your Lions, as I watched the 1st half of The Bears game & went out for my mothers birthday, & missed all other football. Now's not time to join me as a fellow Bears supporter as I hope they lose their remaining games and get a new head coach. How about Jon Gruden!? Dec-17-12    nescio: <PPS. I'm not completely sure what you mean. Are you say that the my Historical Tournaments 1-4 lists are clogging up the searching process?> No, it´s just that searching for a particular collection involves scrolling through all those very long introductions. I encountered an interesting duplicate and remembered you once had a collection of duplicates and tried to find it again, wondering if you had the game listed. Just for your information, it was about Polugaevsky vs J H Donner, 1966 and Polugaevsky vs J H Donner, 1966. I already submitted a correction, but the game scores are both wrong. Dec-18-12    Phony Benoni: <nescio> Thanks for clarifying about the introductions, and I think I understand your concern now. Yes, those long introductions can make browsing collections difficult, and I would prefer to make things easier for those interested enough to look. I realize as well that I am using these introductions in a manner for which they were not intended, but I feel the information is important and see no other way to preserve it on this site. However, I think it is actually more of a <Chessgames>-system problem. Why must the entire introduction be displayed? Surely the opening paragraph or two would suffice. Balancing user convenience versus having the information, I'm coming down on the information side for especially since it's a problem I think <cg> can fix. ------ I haven't been doing much with duplicates of late. I did compile a collection of over 200 examples, but <CG Librarian> took care of almost all of them. With the other projects I'm working on, that will probably stay in the background for now. Dec-18-12    Travis Bickle: Hey Phony, I'm writing you because I'm worried that maybe you don't have The Christmas Spirit, so I sent you a fine vintage cartoon to get you feeling really swell. Your Pal, Travis Hardrock, Coco, and Joe http://youtu.be/JDM6Bbt9WDY Dec-18-12    Jim Bartle: Win Cy Young, get traded for prospects. Arevthe Mets even trying to win? Dec-18-12    WannaBe: Well, the Mets knew they won't/can't agree to Dickey's contract demands, so, what do you do? This is different than Tampa Bay - KC trade, where the contract of the player is not in question... Dec-18-12    Phony Benoni: Good deal for the Mets. A lot of Cy Young winners never duplicate their magical year, and there's no reason to suppose that Dickey will--especially given his age. Of course, being a knuckleballer he won't throw his arm out. Instead, he'll probably throw it in. <Travis> Thanks! It's good to know what inspired the Hardrock Cafe. Dec-18-12    Shams: <Phony Benoni> What do you think are the chances Dickey can put together another solid five or six years, Jamie Moyer-style? <WannaBe> I had heard Dickey was being pretty reasonable in the contract terms he was asking for. Not true? Dec-18-12    Jim Bartle: True, but still... In 1980 Steve Stone said he knew he was destroying his arm throwing so many curves, but he wanted to have that big year, and won the AL Cy Young. Dec-18-12    WannaBe: <Shams> From http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/mets... <The 38-year-old Dickey became the fourth reigning Cy Young award winner to be traded, joining David Cone, Pedro Martinez and Roger Clemens. The trade became official yesterday after Dickey passed a physical as a condition of the two-year contract extension worth $25 million he received from the Blue Jays. The extension also includes a club option for 2016 worth $12 million. Dickey is signed for $5 million in 2013. “Thank you for making me feel wanted,” Dickey wrote to Mets fans on Twitter. “Looking forward to a new chapter with the Jays.” Alderson said there were “several” contract extension offers the Mets made to Dickey that would have kept him with the club if he accepted. The Mets’ final offer was for two years and $20 million, according to sources, which Dickey rejected. If the Mets didn’t find an acceptable trade, Alderson said the team was prepared to bring Dickey into next season to play out his contract.> Dec-18-12    Jim Bartle: But I think those trades of Clemens and Martinez were forced by the players, whose contracts were running out. Cone moved from team to team as a matter of routine. Dec-19-12    playground player: <Esteemed Colleagues> Can anyone explain to me why the NY Jets acquired Tim Tebow as a backup quarterback and then refused to use him when their first-string QB came a cropper? It doesn't make any sense to me at all. This would have been only Tebow's third season in the NFL--kind of young to be collecting moss and splinters. I mean, the guy won the Heisman Trophy, right? And had a fantastic college career. And won a lot of games last year for the Denver Broncos (and probably sold a lot more tickets than they'd've sold without him). And so the Jets acquire him for decoration? I don't get it. Yes, I know there are a lot of pundits who denigrate Tebow's skills. But given what he's achieved in his career as an athlete, how bad can he be? No, I don't get it at all. Dec-19-12    WannaBe: Dumb coach? Dumb Front office? Dumb Owner? Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 450 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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