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 507 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-12-13    perfidious: <PB>: The difficulty to which <jnpope> and you allude is something which I found frustrating for a long while-it is also not my way to poke, prod, then do it some more to achieve my aims when dealing with others, but I decided to send on some resubmissions of old corrections and matters improved a little. Sep-12-13    jnpope: I've been using that correction as a test case. I've got nearly 100 corrections lined up, but I don't see any point in wasting my time submitting them if they don't ever get processed. I'd rather spend my time digging up more material for the CA site (and tracking down Didier). Now that I'm paying for a membership I just thought I'd check to see if it was worth re-submitting... I guess I can go back to just posting corrections in the game threads in an ad hoc fashion, at least that way they have a chance of being seen. Sep-14-13    Travis Bickle: <Phony Benoni> I apologize for that profanity post I made the other day. Sep-14-13    Phony Benoni: <Travis> Understood and forgotten. Thdre was provocation. By the way, if I'm reluctant to talk about the Lions this week, it's because they always lose in Arizona. Put it sown to pre-Sunday depresion. Sep-14-13    jnpope: "...lose in Arizona" seems to an extraneous part of that sentence. I'll put it down as 22-years of disappointment. Sep-14-13    jnpope: But hey, we still have the Tigers and hockey season starts soon, so things are looking up! Sep-14-13    perfidious: <Jim Bartle: Probably true about Aaron, though he only hit 15 more homers at home than on the road. One of the greatest players with or without the record.> By all accounts, an even better man than player. Glad the grand old game has had a few of those. Sep-14-13    Jim Bartle: I saw Aaron play several times with Milwaukee. Always enjoyable. Saw Frank Robinson play for Cincinnati a few times, too. That was more fiery and confrontational. Sep-14-13    perfidious: <Jim>: Remember reading a Reader's Digest article on Aaron after he broke the record, which contained a statement to the effect that he did not want to make anyone forget Babe Ruth, but wanted them to remember Henry Aaron. Will always remember watching the night he hit 715 off Al Downing over the left field wall, as Bill Buckner simply stood there. Sep-14-13    Jim Bartle: But Buckner didn't just stand there. He tried to climb over the fence and get the ball, but House had caught it. Sep-14-13    perfidious: Ah, yes-Tom House's moment in the sun, though that year was a good one for him. My recollection of lo, those many years ago was that Buckner scarcely moved, if at all. Have never watched the video of the homer. Sep-14-13    Phony Benoni: Well, somebody had to find it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzW... A very awkward fence climb by Buckner. I wonder if it permanently stretachd his legs apart. Coupld have affected his ability at first base. Sep-14-13    Phony Benoni: <jnpope> You're disapointed in the Lions after just 22 years? I've been following them since that last championship season in 1957. It was so long ago that their opponents in the championship game were the Cleveland Browns. Tobin Rote rules! Sep-14-13    Jim Bartle: What about Joe Schmidt? He had three interceptions and a TD in the only NFL game I ever saw. Sep-15-13    jnpope: Well, in my life time the best I've ever seen was a single play-off win... I wasn't around in 57! Sep-15-13    perfidious: <jnpope>: One I well remember, for after that, the Dallas dynasty of the 1990s was born. That day, tho, Lions played well and handed Cowboys their heads. Sep-15-13    WannaBe: Min 30, Chi 31. Wow... Sep-15-13    jnpope: I see the Lions want to make it 23 years for me... Sep-16-13    Phony Benoni: Seven straight losses at Arizona. Thank goodness they play at Washington next, where they last won ... Uh oh. The last time they beat the Redskins on the road was in Boston. They haven NEVER won in Washington. Who makes up these schedules? Sep-17-13    WannaBe: Today and tomorrow is kinda unique in San Francisco Giants and St.L Cardinals history, do you know what it is?? Sep-17-13    Phony Benoni: That must be the no-hitters on consectuvie days. I'll guess Ray Sadecki and Gaylord Perry before looking it up. Sep-17-13    WannaBe: You are correct, and I must also add, that 'you' actually should have been y'all. =)) Next trivia for y'all: name the 5 pitchers that have thrown no hitters in both leagues. Sep-17-13    Phony Benoni: OK, half right. Perry and Ray Washburn. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Sep-17-13    Phony Benoni: Hmm. I thought there were 6: Cy Young, Jim Bunning, Hideki Nomo, NOlan Ryan, Randy Johnson, and of course Ted Breitenstein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Br... Hey, you didn't specigy which two leagues! Sep-17-13    Jim Bartle: Had to throw a no-hitter to beat Gibson that year. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 507 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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