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 470 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Mar-24-13    WannaBe: Game over, 1:03 left FGCU up by 13... I have them in my bracket going to the Final Four. Mar-26-13    Travis Bickle: Phony, 1 of Detroit's finest has passed on. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport... Mar-26-13    WannaBe: Something is just not right... http://espn.go.com/minor-league-bas... Mar-26-13    Phony Benoni: And you thought the lines were long before. I do hope that hand-washing afterward is absolutely mandatory. Mar-26-13    jessicafischerqueen: Hello! Would you please nominate this collection by Peter? Game Collection: Bucharest 1954 I don't want to put the wrong country code in or something. I'm still smarting from messing up that USSR Championship which I think is still not corrected, although I certainly submitted the slip. Thanks from South Korea. Mar-27-13    playground player: <Phony Benoni> I happened to be reading about Denny McLain yesterday--incredible, to learn he was washed up by the age of 29. A no-hitter in his first professional game; two Cy Young Awards and an MVP--and he turned into a human train-wreck. All his own fault, too. Imagine pissing away all that talent! Has anyone in chess ever self-destructed on that scale? Mar-27-13    Jim Bartle: The "other" Sokolov reached the candidates' final once, then more or less disappeared. I heard he was drinking heavily. Mar-27-13    WannaBe: Indiana and Syracuse will tip off tomorrow at 9:45PM Eastern time at Verizon Center in Washington D.C. Of course, if the first game Marq-Miami (FL) runs into OT, then Ind/Syr may not start until after 10. How on earth do you start a game after 10PM?!?! Student Athletes, aye? Mar-28-13    jessicafischerqueen: Hello! I looked up the FIDE country code and used that for Romania (ROM). The collection is nominated and ready for voting. Game Collection: Bucharest 1954 Mar-30-13    Phony Benoni: The good news for Czech golfer Jakub Svoboda is that he completed his round in only 46 strokes! The bad news... http://www.cbssports.com/golf/blog/... Mar-31-13    WannaBe: Half-time, Michigan got a healthy 17 pts lead. Mar-31-13    WannaBe: Athletes and their charity foundation: http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_... Very, very bold predictions, by espn.com humourist DJ Gallo: http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/fa... Mar-31-13    Jim Bartle: I don't like it as much now that he's gone big time to ESPN, but Gallo's sportspickle.com used to be hilarious. A real dry sense of humor, and he never missed a chance to insinuate Ray Lewis was an accessory to murder. I mean, every week. Mar-31-13    WannaBe: Louisville have started to pull away from Duke... Mar-31-13    Jim Bartle: This is a hell of a choice...Pitino one year, Calipari the next. Ugh. Mar-31-13    WannaBe: Game over... Dukies lost this one. Apr-01-13    WannaBe: Good News: Cubs defeated Pittsburgh. Bad News: Cubs are now mathematically eliminated from post-season play. Apr-01-13    Phony Benoni: Too bad. They probably could have done better in the Stanley Cup than the World Series. Apr-02-13    WannaBe: Yu Darvish perfect through 6 innings, on the road, against Houston. Apr-02-13    WannaBe: Middle 8th, perfect game, still. Apr-02-13    WannaBe: 8 full innings, perfect game. Apr-02-13    Phony Benoni: But Ivanchuk bats in the ninth! Apr-02-13    WannaBe: Ivanchuk's gonna hit the 8-run homer to win the game for Houston. Apr-02-13    WannaBe: D'oh!!! Apr-02-13    WannaBe: 2 outs, bottom of the 9th, Ivanchuk breaks up the perfect game!!! Man, he's amazing. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 470 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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