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 457 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-12-13    Jim Bartle: Come on, guys, give us just one shot of Ray Lewis on the bench. Jan-12-13    chancho: <WannaBe> You were right... last team with the ball did win. Jan-12-13    OhioChessFan: Funny how that always works out. Jan-12-13    Phony Benoni: At least in overtime. Well, unless the game ends on a safety. Jan-12-13    chancho: That Colin Kaepernick is for real. Jan-13-13    Jim Bartle: Half court shot balances on the rim: http://nba.si.com/2013/01/12/video-... Jan-13-13    playground player: I can't decide which aspect of baseball was more off-putting to me--the general use of steroids, or the general presumption that everyone watching the games is an idiot, so easily hoodwinked as to be hardly worth the trouble. The Great McGwire-Sosa Home Run Race, by some miracle occurring **just exactly** when baseball needed it (with fans disgusted by the latest players' strike, and staying away in droves)--ghagh, what a spectacle! But this little vignette married the use of steroids with the presumption of idiocy on the fans' part. After that, the sport was never the same, at least for me. And now, with mediocre seats at Yankee Stadium selling for $275 a pop, and no baseball on TV unless you want to bring cable or satellite into your home and take on another monthly bill (for which you get tons of reality shows in return!)--frankly, I don't see how baseball survives at all. Jan-13-13    WannaBe: Call me old fashion'd, but I love to listen to a baseball game on the radio. Still, in my opinion, best medium, just perfectly paced throw in a good announcer with a lot of stories to tell, voila! Winner. Jan-13-13    Jim Bartle: I agree. Dodgers games on TV often have Vin Scully doing both TV and radio. I don't even watch, just listen. Jan-13-13    WannaBe: Lets get ready for some footbaaaaaaaaaaal!! Jan-13-13    WannaBe: Things just got really interesting in Atlanta, Seahawks have made a come back and is now 27-21 Falcons. Jan-13-13    chancho: Seattle just tied the game. They still have to kick the extra point to go up 28 to 27. Jan-13-13    WannaBe: 28-27!!! Seahawks leads the Falcons! How about that?! How do you like them apples???? Jan-13-13    chancho: Oh snap! Atlanta has a chance to win via field goal. Jan-13-13    WannaBe: He made the field goal, he made the field goal!! 8 seconds left!! Jan-13-13    WannaBe: Thank you for coming Houston, pick up your consolation prize of Clam Chowder on your way home. Geeze!! Jan-13-13    WannaBe: Early line have Falcons as 3 pt home underdog O/U 48. New England is 10 (!!!) pt favourite, with O/U 51. Jan-16-13    Phony Benoni: Hey, Travis! What's this I hear about the Bears' new coach punting on third down? Jan-16-13    WannaBe: He will also send 3 men in motion and wonder why the field is so short. Jan-16-13    Jim Bartle: Trestman was a real fans' whipping boy when he was 49ers offensive co-ordinator in the mid-90s, when they had Young and Rice but couldn't get back to the Super Bowl. I think he was with Detroit later. Jan-16-13    jessicafischerqueen: Hello! I'm hoping you can tell me the birth date <Gaige> gives for Vladimir Petrov? The <Fride> biography and the biography by Petrov's wife both give 1908, but the Wiki article and Sarah Beth both list 1907. I'd like to get to the bottom of this if it's even possible. Jan-16-13    TheFocus: <jess> My <Gaige> (A Catalog of Chessplayers and Problemists) gives the birth date of Petrov as Sept. 27, 1907 and death date as March 15, 1945. Jan-16-13    jessicafischerqueen: Thanks <TheFocus>, no doubt that's where the original trail starts. Date is a year off, according to the memoirs of his wife, <Galina Mathis-Petrov>. Should be Sept. 27, 1908. Jan-16-13    chancho: It's weird, but in the Sarah Beth link I posted earlier, <Twinlark's forum> it has 1907 - 1945 but I ignored it because the passage says: <Vladimir Petrov (1907-1945) from Riga, Latvia was one of the strongest players of his day. He tied for first with Solo Flohr and Sammy Reshevsky at Kemeri 1937 ahead of both Keres and Alekhine. Arrested 8-31-1942 for violating article 58 (a vague anti-counterrevolutionary article in the criminal code under which many people were unjustly convicted), he was sentenced to 10 years in the labor camp at Kotlas. He died there the following year, 8-26-1943, of inflammation of the lungs.> If he died Aug 26, 1943, then why say 1945? I assumed it was a typo. Jan-16-13    jessicafischerqueen: <chancho> no, Sarah probably didn't notice the discrepancy. I doubt it's a typo. During her lifelong quest to get a straight answer from the Soviet government, the authorities did indeed tell Galina Mathis-Petrovs at one point that Petrovs died in 1945. However, the KGB sent her the actual death certificate in 1989, which is why sources have been using Aug 26 1943 as the (presumably accurate) death date since 1989. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 457 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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