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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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Jul-19-13		Travis Bickle: Hey Phony, they can't make cuts on your A#1 library can they?

Jul-19-13		Phony Benoni: Travis, everything is on the table, and I won't be surprised if the Detroit Public Library is drastically cut or even eliminated. Libraries just aren't high on the priority list these days. If the people were asked to choose between weekly curbside garbage pickup and libraries, it's bye-bye books. There's a big outcry now at the possibility of closing the Detroit Institute of Arts and selling all the art work to help pay off the debt. That could raise a billion or so, but there is absolute outrage whenever the possibility is mentioned. Which simply exemplifies the problem. Any sort of solution is going to outrage some group, who will immediately file a lawsuit demanding that something else be done instead. It's just going to have to be a huge across-the-board solution, and a lot of innocent people are going to get hurt, if not totally wiped out. But that's going to happen anyway if nothing is done, as has been the case for decades. I don't have quite the same worries since I work for the University of Detroit Mercy, which isn't directly affected by all this. But, of course, if the city's troubles affect the willingness of prospective students to enroll, I may have to move to Chicago and camp out in your basement or something.

Jul-19-13		Travis Bickle: Hey Phony you're always welcome. ; )

Jul-19-13		jessicafischerqueen: Good morning. I just thought of a potential method to keep WCM edited intros organized for our purposes? What if we just made a mirror games collection for each event? It wouldn't matter what the games in the fake collections were, just one even. We'd just use the mirror collection as an editing board. We could copy and paste the existing intros into the mirror games collection intro, then one of us could work on fact checking and sourcing an edited version of that intro. We could do this for each of the WC events. We could canvas the Bistro and see who might be interested in working on which edit. We could keep track of the mirror games collections by posting them all in one profile= we could use one of my spare preemy accounts, so then we could also use the forum for group comments on the edits? Anyways thinking out loud here and wondering what you might like to see. If you don't want to spend a lot of time on this, I wouldn't mind trying to organize something.

Jul-19-13		jessicafischerqueen: Oh forgot to mention the last part. When we are all happy with each mirror collection edited intro, we could sign off on the entire project and then just copy and paste them all into one text file to email to Daniel.

Jul-19-13		perfidious: <There's a big outcry now at the possibility of closing the Detroit Institute of Arts and selling all the art work to help pay off the debt. That could raise a billion or so, but there is absolute outrage whenever the possibility is mentioned. Which simply exemplifies the problem. Any sort of solution is going to outrage some group, who will immediately file a lawsuit demanding that something else be done instead. > Is this because the Institute is a non-profit organisation? If that is the case, sounds as though it could be long and messy.

Jul-19-13		Phony Benoni: <perfidious> I think the main opposition is sentimental. The DIA is a symbol of Detroit in the good days, and people can't accept that Detroit is no longer a Great City that needs an Institute of Art to worthy of that status. There is also some dispute about who actually "owns" the collection, since much of the upkeep and maintenance is paid by other local governments.

Jul-20-13		WCC Editing Project: <Phony Benoni> (It's JFQ here) Actually I thought you were training me to stop rushing about, fearing another <USSR Championship 1940> debacle. I'm sorry to learn (yesterday) about the Detroit trouble, but relieved to hear that your job, at least, remains safe. Ok here's what I made so far. Before continuing, I'll wait for any further comments/suggestions you might have. I'm thrilled for the chance to "take point" on this. I'll do my best, and if I make mistakes I'm sure colleagues will help out. Rest assured, we won't submit the final edit to Daniel until we are ready. Orson Wells/Phony Benoni: "We will sell no edits before their time." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSs6... Here is the <WCC Editing Project> editing account I just created: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Let me know if you think I should change/add anything to the introduction? Once I hear from you I will create the rest of the mirror edit game collections. Once I complete them all, I'll make the introductory post in the Biographer Bistro

Jul-20-13		WCC Editing Project: ooh just thought of something else that's good. When we submit our final edit, in the intros we can include the hyperlinks to <Historical Tournament> collections where possible. This will help publicize such official tournament collections, because I suspect more passersby read the WCC than they do the Tournament List, though both are on the front page. However, in cases such as this: Game Collection: Paris 1878 I don't think we should hyperlink unpromoted member collections, because if in future they are promoted, we won't be able to upgrade the hyperlink in the WCC introductions. Once Daniel gets our final edit, we won't be able to change anything on the new WCC intros.

Jul-20-13		WCC Editing Project: arghh sorry to spam, but things keep springing to mind that I'd like your opinion on, and I don't want to forget them. In my view, websites such as <Chess Notes> and <Chess Archaeology> definitely count as reliable sources. However, there's a problem linking these sites as references, because the links aren't persistent. So in the case of <Chess Notes>, we should list the reference as <Chess Note 4244>, for example? I'm not sure how to link reliably to <Chess Archaeology>. For example, are we happy with this? Game Collection: WCC: Steinitz-Gunsberg 1890 <1 Newspaper excerpt taken from Nick Pope's research at http://www.chessarch.com/index.php]> I may be imagining this, but I think there might actually be a method to make a persistent link to <Chess Notes> and maybe even <Chess Archaeology> that will take the reader right to the article in question. I think maybe some people at cg.com know how to do this too. Maybe I should be posting this "thinking out loud" in the WCC Edit forum? I'm so used to just dropping in here to ask for your opinion.

Jul-20-13		perfidious: SI cover boy Jason Grilli throws his best pitch of 2013: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/e... <Phony Benoni> no doubt remembers Grilli's father Steve, but don't ask why I do, for I've no idea: http://www.baseball-reference.com/p...

Jul-20-13		Phony Benoni: Steve Grilli pitched for some truly dreadful Tigers' teams in the mid-1970s. His downfall seems to have been poor control; more walks than strikeouts lifetime. Jason Grilli was with the Tigers in the middle of the last decade when they began their resurgence, but never progressed beyond being the guy who pitches the last couple of innings in a blow-out. In those days the Tigers had a solid bullpen, but they'd love to have Jason Grilli now. They might even take Steve back.

Jul-20-13		perfidious: <PB>: Once one has been relegated to that role of eleventh/twelfth man on any staff, tough to escape it, for people rely to a great extent on images, as Bill James noted a long while ago.

Jul-20-13		WannaBe: How about this, Seattle scored 2 runs, at the top of the 6th, without a hit, actually, the Mariners have not gotten a hit in this game. Top sixth: K, BB, BB, SF (runners took 2 bases), PB, 9.

Jul-20-13		WannaBe: The no-no is no more, but Mariners scored 2 more with one hit! Top seventh: 5 (PU), BB, K, BB, 2B, K. The line for Seattle, 4 1 0

Jul-20-13		Phony Benoni: Almost as bad as this game: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... I wonder how many of those errors in the 8th inning would have been errors in the first inning?

Jul-20-13		WannaBe: Great names, Steve Sax, Mattingly, Sammy Sosa, Guillen, Ventura. The winner pitcher (Jones), 10-1. Don't see that very often now a days.

Jul-20-13		Phony Benoni: I hadn't noticed that: Barry Jones was 10-1 on July 1. But the really freaky thing was that he was a relief pitcher! Wound up going to 11-1 before losing his last three decisions.

Jul-21-13		OhioChessFan: http://nesn.com/2012/10/dwight-howa... Don't want to disrupt team chemistry.

Jul-21-13		OhioChessFan: Illegitimate errors in the 8th inning? Only for the home team. I think back in the day of Glavine, Maddux, Avery, et al, the Atlanta Braves official scorer tried to count home runs as errors if the fans dropped the ball in the stands. On the flip side, the Phillies scorer wouldn't give Mike Schmidt an error if his life depended on it.

Jul-21-13		perfidious: <PB>: A game I remember with glee.

Jul-21-13		Phony Benoni: <OCF> I wonder if Howard ever used that talent during gameas "Amazing! Howard goes in for an uncontested dunk when his defender is blown ten feet away by some unseen force! Even in the NBA, that would have to be a foul.

Jul-21-13		crawfb5: I think I have identified one additional participant from that photo of the 1941 US Open. Fred Anderson should be standing, third from the left. I also have a photo of WM Parker Mitchell (in Steiner's prelim section, did not make final) from a 1947 <Chess Life>, but am having trouble matching him up. Not pictured is Mrs. Russell Williams from Fine's prelim section. There are 17 men in the photo, so with 15 participants plus Helms, that leaves one extra man, presumably some local official from the city or chess club (if I had to guess, I'd guess the man standing on the extreme left -- he's wearing a suit and does not have the "player's badge"). Missing from the key in <Chess Notes> are CM Burton, David E Ehrlich, and Charles W McClure, all of St. Louis. Also missing is Kirk D Holland of Fort Worth. None made the final, and all seem to be minor players, so they may not be identifiable.

Jul-22-13		Thanh Phan: <Phony Benoni> I thought for sure I have made some sort of mistake with your explanation on how to form a link for the Chess Archeology site, glad you were able to show the reason why that particular article failed to form properly

Jul-23-13		OhioChessFan: Oh, I am so surprised. http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/...

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