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 475 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-21-13    playground player: Jim Gentile. Bobby Schantz. Warren Spahn. Hobie Landrith. Albie Pearson. Don Blasingame. <Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?> Apr-21-13    OhioChessFan: User: Blue User: Link User: Haiku User: who User: avatar User: Here User: Beaker User: frum User: THE User: muppets User: Sho User: funny User: LABTECH User: guy Apr-21-13    WannaBe: First, there was this: http://espn.go.com/mlb/blog/_/name/... Then, this: http://espn.go.com/mlb/blog/_/name/... My decision?! He's out. Apr-22-13    Phony Benoni: It's probably too late for the Cubs to protest the game. They could definitely get a replay, which would at least save the Computers of America. Only the Cubs could be in the situation of protesting a play that left them with nobody on base and two outs to have instead a runner on second and nobody out. Apr-22-13    Travis Bickle: http://youtu.be/6oundpU2wPY Apr-22-13    Jim Bartle: Brilliant, travis! Apr-23-13    OhioChessFan: I'll put you on ignore <PB> so you can see it. I was curious and went to someone who has had me on ignore for years, and lo and behold, I wasn't on ignore any more. But there <was> an old reliable who has a few hundred people on ignore and I could go to his page to see it. Apr-23-13    Phony Benoni: <OCF> Got it. Thanks for putting me on ignore. Er, could someone tell him the experiment is over now? Apr-23-13    OhioChessFan: I noticed a reply to me on my forum, the star thingy, and then came here and there was no reply. Took me a second to figure it out. Apr-23-13    Captain Hindsight: <OCF> there and back again. Apr-24-13    Phony Benoni: You may have noticed that the Upton brothers hit back-to-back home runs for the Braves yesterday. The answer is yes: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Apr-24-13    Jim Bartle: I believe the Davis brothers did it with the Dodgers as well, and the Robinson brothers with the Orioles. Apr-24-13    WannaBe: Testing out the ignore feature?! =)) Apr-24-13    WannaBe: B. Sanders won to be on the cover of Madden 25. Beating out A. Petersen. Apr-24-13    Phony Benoni: Oh, great, here comes the Madden jinx again. Sanders will come out of retirement, play for the Lions this year, and only gain 1500 yards. Wait, it's Madden. He'll play for the Raiders. Even worse. He may only gain 1000 yards. Apr-24-13    WannaBe: I think it will be the reverse jinx, he returns to football, signs with Oakland, rushes for 13000 yds, wins the Heisman again, wins the 2013 Idiotarod, Cy Young, Come Back Player, Tour de France... Apr-24-13    Phony Benoni: And knocks off the winner of the Anand - Carlsen match using the WannaBe Gambit. Apr-24-13    Phony Benoni: The City of Detroit is in shock tonight. Jose Valverde has officially returned to the team, and came in for the ninth inning with a two-run lead. I couldn't watch. And now the gory details are in: Three up. Three down. Detroit may never recover from skipping our Ninth Inning Heart Pills and Maalox. Apr-24-13    Jim Bartle: Great, great catch of a foul pop by Hairston of the Dodgers in the ninth tonight, preserving a Mets lead with a man on third. Look for it. Wright hit the next pitch for the game-tying single on the next pitch, lessening the drama of the catch a little. Apr-24-13    WannaBe: And we lose on a grand slam... =(( Apr-24-13    Jim Bartle: I've never been a big fan of the intentional walk with men on second and third in a game- deciding situation as in the Mets game tonight. Unless it's to get past a really dangerous hitter. The Dodgers did that tonight, and the pitcher was obviously nervous, knowing he couldn't walk the batter. So he grooved a fastball and the guy hit it out. Apr-25-13    OhioChessFan: I have the same objection <JB> I know strategically it makes sense, but it totally ignores the psychological factor. Apr-25-13    hangingenprise: the traiders have a first round pick the traiders have a first round pick!! well phony, the lions take an offensive lineman as predicted, which one is the question. Apr-25-13    Jim Bartle: Here's the catch of the foul ball I mentioned. Unfortunately this clip doesn't have it at regular speed except from a distance, so you can't really see how great it was. http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?c... Apr-25-13    Phony Benoni: With none or one out, I think the intentional walk with runners on second and third is almost mandatory; you really need to create the opportunity for a double play. With two out, only if you're pitching around somebody you'd be likely to walk anyway. It is a psychological burden on the pitcher. But if they can't handle it, they probably don't belong in the major leagues. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 475 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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