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 505 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-07-13    Travis Bickle: P.S. Phony The Taxidermist that done my Bear head threw in this handy Chicago Bear key chain! ; P http://img1.etsystatic.com/002/0/68... Sep-07-13    Phony Benoni: Travis, I never know Bears bothered with keys. Thought their favorite food was Bagels and Locks. Sep-07-13    Travis Bickle: Hey Phony, Bears don't normally mess around with keys, but have been known to tear the keys out of a campers hand when panicked. Ya know if they run out of beer before kick off! ; P P.S. They usually do prefer locks & bagels but when really hungry love to feast on Lions! LOL Sep-07-13    OhioChessFan: Gimme a......cheeseburger! http://msn.foxsports.com/other/stor... Sep-07-13    Jim Bartle: When did cheerleading become a "sport"? He can really jump for a 300-pounder, though. Sep-07-13    Phony Benoni: <JB> Football players have long considered cheeerleaders to be sport. But competition has been around for a long time. I kind of remember PBS covering the National Cheerleading Championships every Christmas Day. Which shows you how bad the rest of the programming was. Sep-08-13    WannaBe: Teams have scored 3 safeties, so far. Gotta be some kind of a record. Sep-08-13    Phony Benoni: Lions start the game by driving down the field, getting to second and inches on the 11-yard-line. Run, no gain. Pass, incomplete. Field goal, bothched hold. On the first play, Minnesota hands the ball to Peterson. 78-yard TD. Since then, Calvin Johnson has a touchdown called back when the 73rd replay indicate indicates a tiny rollof the ball on theground, and a Lions interception return for a touchdown is invalidated by a penalty. Same old Lions. Travis, please let me die in peace. Sep-08-13    Jim Bartle: I just flipped to the Lions game, and have watched two plays. Play 1: Detroit guy catches a pass, fumbles two steps later. Play 2: Detroit DB called for obvious pass interence. Oops, another play. Minnesota QB flips up easy interception. What is this, the 1971 Super Bowl? Sep-08-13    Phony Benoni: With the Lions, the question is simply what they run out of first, bullets or feet. But I shouldn't complain yet. With everything, they are only down one aft halftime. And the Bears are having trouble too. Sep-08-13    Jim Bartle: I'e always wondered about the tactic of jumping over the line and holding the ball out in front to cross the goal line. The Detroit runner got the ball knocked away and the Vikes recovered. Fortunately he had just pushed the ball over the "plane." Sep-08-13    Jim Bartle: I would bet that Peterson's 78.0 rushing average after one play is the highest season average ever in the NFL. The pileup after Peterson's fumble was one of the biggest I've ever seen. Wonder what was going at the bottom. Sep-08-13    Phony Benoni: <JB> Probably making sausage. Sep-08-13    Travis Bickle: Congrats Phony on your Lions victory! P.S. The Bears won but a had real fight on their hands! The Bengals are a good football team. Sep-08-13    Jim Bartle: I like the Packers in general, but that was a dirty hit out of bounds by Matthews on Kaepernick. Matthews had said they were going to hit Kaepernick hard when he ran, but he should have said they were going to rush him and cover the receivers. Kaepernick threw for 400 yards. Sep-08-13    Jim Bartle: Adrian Peterson's day: 1st carry: 78 yards. Next 17 carries: 18 yards. Lions can't seem to teach Suh anything. A DB was running for a score with an interception, and Suh clipped the center. As if a center ever had a chance to catch a DB from behind. Sep-09-13    Jim Bartle: Joe Morgan's induction into the Reds' Hall of Fame: http://wapc.mlb.com/play/?content_i... Sep-09-13    WCC Editing Project: Good evening. I hope you won't mind me asking you for some help? Do you have the <Gaige> volume that would record all tournaments <Emanuel Lasker> played in from <Hastings 1895> to <Cambridge Springs 1904>? We are trying to confirm a truth claim with a primary source for our project: Game Collection: WCC: Lasker-Marshall 1907 This is the claim in question: <At the age of 27, Marshall won the very strong Cambridge Springs (1904) tournament a full two points ahead of world champion Emanuel Lasker. This was the first time Lasker had finished lower than first since Hastings (1895).> <chessmetrics> "confirms" the claim but, sadly, it can't really confirm anything because it has too many missing events, as you likely already know. If you can help us, we'd be very grateful. Best regards, JFQ Sep-09-13    Phony Benoni: We live in exciting times. Every sports event includes at least a half-dozen "UNBELIEVABLE!!" plays. If they happen so frequently, what's so unbelievable about them? To my mind, if it ain't Kirk Gibson homering off Eckersley, find another adjective. Sep-09-13    Deus Ex Alekhina: Speak of the devil: I mentioned jury duty in Detroit here a short time ago, and I just today got a jury questionaire from Wayne County. The first time I got a questionaire more than 20 years ago, it came from the Coleman Young Municipal Building. I couldn't find such a place in my yellow pages (I am not that familiar with the streets & buildings in Detroit), so I had to call a relative. Oh, that's the new name for the city-county building, OK. So, I get jury duty & I have to catch the bus on a Monday morning to get to the city-county building. As I am taking a shower at 5:10AM that Monday morning I suddenly realize that the courtroom is not in the city county building, but who can I call to find out at the last minute? No one. It's on Monroe, I know Monroe cuz its near Greektown. I catch the 6:25AM suburban bus, get off near the RenCen at 7:05 and then start trotting really fast, I have to be there at 7;45, and I have no idea where it is altho I know where Monroe is. Run, turkey, run! PHEW! Made it at 7:41, but there is a long line of prospective jurors. After sitting in the pre-exam room for 5 hours with 399 other prospects, we are told to go home. Suspect # 1 plead to a deal, and suspect # 2 didn't show up. What a stupid waste of time! I promised myself that I would rather commit suicide than go thru this nonsense again. Sep-09-13    WannaBe: In California, we have this system, we phone the court after 5PM, using the dial pad, we enter our jury number. Then we find out if we need to be there 7:45AM. If not, we call again in the morning, after 9AM if needed, we report at 12:45PM. If we are not needed, we won't be called upon for a year. But after a year, you are fair game (again) for the county. Sep-09-13    Jim Bartle: Did anybody see the play a few days ago where the catcher tried to pick off a runner on first--probably had him, too--and his throw hit the bat, and the ball bounced into foul territory? The batter had swung and his follow-through was high, and the catcher nailed it square. Error on the catcher. Sep-09-13    OhioChessFan: I saw that one. It was as unfair an error as a perfect throw to a base hitting a sliding runner and it bounces away. Sep-09-13    Phony Benoni: Bet that catcher never gets used as a replacement pitcher. This is the one I'll always rememeter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmq... The look on Stargell's face is priceless. Sep-09-13    Travis Bickle: Hey Phony now here was a ball player! ...And what an arm!! P.S. He's one of two players who just missed hitting the Wrigley Field scoreboard which is about 550 feet. The other player to just miss it was Bill Nicholson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qp... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwP... 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