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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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   Phony Benoni has kibitzed 18634 times to chessgames [more...]

   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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Jan-30-13		Jim Bartle: Her husband was too fast for her? Her husband faked his own murder and framed her for it? She found a louisville banner in his underwear drawer?

Jan-30-13		WannaBe: <Jim Bartle> Worse! He thought 'Dolphin Tale' sucked!!

Jan-30-13		Travis Bickle: Ashley Judd is pushing 40 her husband probably caused the divorce pursuing greener pastures. ; P

Jan-31-13		jnpope: <Phony Benoni> Thanks for re-submitting the Z-L game (now for the third time as PGN). I'm not sure what the problem is, which is why I started asking... I'm fairly annoyed that I've submitted the game twice as PGN and nothing ever occurred in getting it corrected.

Jan-31-13		Phony Benoni: <jnpope> My apologies. I should have realized that you probably submitted the correct PGN, and not bothered. I've noticed that correcting game scores tends to be the slowest type of update, for whatever reason. Processing new game submissions has also slowed to a snail's pace. I can understand concentrating on new features and current events; that's what the majority of members are most interested in. But it's still frustrating when work goes into limbo, and the lack of a notification system means you have no idea why. Of course, if I had the vision, passion, energy, and technical knowledge necessary to devise my own database, then I could run it right. Of course there would still be complaining, but at least I'd know the complainers were nitpicking worrywarts.

Feb-01-13		OhioChessFan: What a headline: "Detroit Tears Down 12 Houses by Mistake" http://www.houselogic.com/news/home...

Feb-01-13		Phony Benoni: Unoccupied houses are a big problem in Detroit, providing opportunities for arson and drug dealing. There are various high-priority efforts to tear them down. Combine that and a broken bureaucracy, and this happens from time to time. In my opinion, Detroit's biggest problem is that it has become too small for its britches. It still must try to provide services over the same geographic area with a constantly declining tax base. If they could just sell half the city and move the population into the other half, things would be a lot better. <Sameer Beydoun> would not be an uncommon name in Dearborn's Arab-American community, but I do recall a scholastic chessplayer by that name. (Gotta mention chess around here occasionally.)

Feb-01-13		jnpope: <Phony Benoni>: Can you use your magical bio-editing powers and correct the score to the 1866 Mackenzie-Reichhelm match? George Henry Mackenzie Only six games were played, Reichhelm quitting the match after the sixth game, so the score should (+5-0=1). http://www.chessarch.com/archive/18...

Feb-01-13		Phony Benoni: <jnpope> Done.

Feb-02-13		WannaBe: Okay, so, what is WAR good for? http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8...

Feb-02-13		Phony Benoni: Arguments.

Feb-02-13		playground player: <Wanna Be> So a guy wins the Triple Crown for the first time anyone did it since 1967, and his team goes to the World Series--and there's even a debate as to whether he's the MVP? That some other guy should get it because a newfangled statistical scheme gives him a higher number? Maybe they should let F.I.D.E. run baseball.

Feb-02-13		Phony Benoni: Won't happen. FIDE is too busy running hockey.

Feb-03-13		waustad: <<waustad> Regarding your query from several days ago: Olimpbase appears to be alive and well. I seem to recall them having temporary down time in the past.> Yes, I noticed that yesterday. They had some new content so maybe it was easier to take it down while working on it. Thanks for your response.

Feb-05-13		keypusher: <playground player: <Wanna Be> So a guy wins the Triple Crown for the first time anyone did it since 1967, and his team goes to the World Series--and there's even a debate as to whether he's the MVP? That some other guy should get it because a newfangled statistical scheme gives him a higher number?> It's not so silly as all that. The case for Trout over Cabrera can be stated as follows: 1. Trout and Cabrera are almost equal as hitters. 2. Trout is a much better fielder. 3. Trout is a much better baserunner. WAR picks up ##2 and 3 (or at least is supposed to), and the Triple Crown doesn't. But you don't need WAR to see that Trout is a better runner and fielder than Cabrera. Note that the author of the piece in <WannaBe>'s link says he voted for Trout, but did not use WAR. I'm not taking a position on the MVP, though. I don't know enough about baseball for that.

Feb-05-13		Shams: It didn't help Trout that he was a rookie, with many stellar years of baseball likely ahead of him. I'd like to think that if he were an eight-year vet with no hardware to his name, the voting would have been much closer than 22-6. It's funny that Baseball Nation is so focused on new statistical approaches and has been for some time, but MLB culture is so slow to change. King Felix won the Cy Young a couple years ago with a crummy win-loss record. I don't think you can even find someone anymore who will defend Pitcher Wins as a meaningful statistic, but it was actually a big deal that Felix won the award notwithstanding his team's lousy offensive output.

Feb-06-13		WannaBe: This one came courtesey of DJ Gallo of ESPN.com (And I've changed the format somewhat, but the info are still correct) On Sept 20, 2009 Phil. Eagles played their first home regular season game, against the Saints. On Sept 12, 2010 Phil. Eagles played their first home regular season game, against the Packers. On Sept 25, 2011 Phil. Eagles played their first home regular season game, against the Giants (See a trend here yet??) On Sept 16, 2012 Phil. Eagles played their first home regular season game, against the Ravens... I hope the 2013 schedule have the Eagles play the UCLA Bruins as the home opener.

Feb-06-13		WannaBe: G. Easterbrook, of ESPN's Tuesday Morning Quarterback, http://espn.go.com/espn/playbook/st... Stat #2, interesting. #5, If you want to win the 2013 Super Bowl, make sure you lose to the Raiders. #6, Wow, Really?! I mean, REALLY?!?! #10, the 4 team that lost, were all Minnesota Vikings. I am not sure of the other teams that wore red.

Feb-06-13		Shams: (cont'd...) But the terms of the Cy Young award are simpler, right? It goes to the best pitcher, not the most 'valuable' one. Value is a fuzzier concept. Many agree with <playground player> that a player from a non-playoff team has a lower value ceiling than a player on a pennant-winning team. I think <Jim Bartle> favored Cabrera for MVP in part for the same reason. But all of you know this, I bring it up because this week the NFL also awarded its MVP. And it went to Adrian Peterson. Now, he had a phenomenal year no doubt, but he is not more valuable than a Russell Wilson or a Richard Sherman, to pick two random players. A running back can never be the most valuable player in the modern NFL. The value ceiling at that position just isn't there. This was even more obvious in 2006, the last year a RB won the award: Shaun Alexander. Even a football dummy like me knew at the time that if they wanted to give the award to a Seahawk, it should have been the Left Tackle. They should scrap the NFL MVP and just call it "Best Football Player". Peterson was definitely that, this year.

Feb-06-13		OhioChessFan: Both football and baseball would be well served to maintain the current MVP and also institute a Player of the Year that recognizes only the player, not the team results. FWIW I disagree about the football MVP and Peterson would have had my vote.

Feb-06-13		OhioChessFan: <Thanks to the mother of five-star running back recruit Alex Collins, we may already have a winner for the craziest story of national signing day. Collins, who played his high school ball in Florida, verbally committed to Arkansas back in February. When he went to fax his letter of intent on Wednesday morning, it was nowhere to be found. That’s because his mother reportedly took his papers and ran away with them.> http://network.yardbarker.com/colle...

Feb-07-13		Phony Benoni: <OhioChessFan: Both football and baseball would be well served to maintain the current MVP and also institute a Player of the Year that recognizes only the player, not the team results.> I wonder if the two awards would be judged differently. My first thought is that MVP would become a WAR sort of thing, while POTY would cater more toward the more traditional, "real" numbers.

Feb-07-13		Jim Bartle: Reggie Jackson said something similar back in 1977. He said Rod Carew, who was elected MVP, should be named Player of the Year or something similar, but since his team was not a contender he shouldn't be MVP. Of course Jackson was really saying, "I'm the best player on the best team, and I'm the MVP."

Feb-07-13		OhioChessFan: Of course, if Reggie Jackson hadn't been surrounded by/protected by such talent, he wouldn't have put up the numbers he did. See Griffy, Junior, after he left Seattle.

Feb-07-13		Jim Bartle: But wasn't he the straw that stirred the drink?

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