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 528 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Nov-26-13    Jim Bartle: Second-baseman, 40 homers: Dave Johnson, Atlanta 1973, when half the starting lineup hit 40. I would guess Rogers Hornsby did it, and I don't know the third. Maybe Sandberg? I was going to say Clemente for Latino home run hitters, but then remembered he hit righthanded. Nov-26-13    OhioChessFan: Total guess: 1. Hornsby, Whitaker, Sandberg Nov-26-13    OhioChessFan: For the past month, I have been thinking that I'd prefer to kick off in the OT. In the college rules, there's a great advantage to going second, although each side is guaranteed to get the ball. The major advantage is knowing what you have to get, which means you'll know for sure if you should go for a 4th down. I think the NFL rules changes have probably made it best to hope you don't give up a TD and then know if you should run an entire drive going for it on 4th down. Nov-26-13    Jim Bartle: 1968. Year of the Pitcher. Who were the starters in the All-star Game? Here's a video of that game. Take a look about 9:40. Frank Howard is introduced as the AL's cleanup hitter. Then Willie Horton is introduced as the #5 hitter. His reaction standing next to Howard is pretty funny. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XasEyT... Nov-26-13    technical draw: Wait a minute: 2. Orlando Cepeda Nov-26-13    Jim Bartle: Same problem; Cepeda hit right. He was the first player I ever saw up close, chatting with friends in the Seals Stadium parking lot after a game, ignoring all us little kds. Nov-26-13    WannaBe: I read once, maybe it was also on ESPN.com that driving back from Michigan to Ohio, W. Hayes refused to refill his car at a station inside of Michigan border, and ended up (with help of others) pushing his car back to Ohio. http://espn.go.com/college-football... Nov-27-13    Phony Benoni: Well,you know those Ohio State cars. They run for three yards and raise a cloud of dust. Nov-27-13    technical draw: I laughed when I heard US commentators pronounce Cepeda-they would say something like "suh-pay-duh." But I really cracked up when I heard another commentator try to pronounce golfer Jose Maria Olazabal's last name. They were probably told they had to pronounce it with the Spanish (from Spain) pronunciation rather then the Latin American one. What came out was a comical "th" for the "z". It sounded like he was choking. It would have been easier to use the latin America z which is closer to the easy s. Now I have a problem: every time I here somebody say Olazabal I start laughing. Nov-27-13    Jim Bartle: 13-step guide to writing a hit piece on N----------------- Suh: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id... Nov-27-13    playground player: <Esteemed Colleagues> Here are the answers to my trivia questions. 1. 3 second basemen with 40 or more homers: Davy Johnson, Rogers Hornsby, Ryne Sandberg. <Jim Bartle's> guess was on the money. But no one came close to 2. first Latino to hit 30 homers batting left-handed--Willie Montanez, in 1971 with the Phillies. Happy Thanksgiving, all. Nov-27-13    Jim Bartle: I could have gone a month without guessing Montanez. He played a couple of years with the Giants and was basically a .300 average singles hitter. And the Jints traded Garry Maddox for him, just because Von Joshua had had a couple of hot months while Maddox was injured! Nov-27-13    technical draw: TD's sour grapes: It's Montañez! Nov-27-13    Jim Bartle: Yes, Montañez. But I didn't have the "ñ" on the other keyboard. Nov-27-13    playground player: <Jim Bartle> "Three quarters of the earth's surface is covered by water. The rest is covered by Gary Maddox."--Ralph Kiner. <TD> There is no way my computer knows how to put the ~ over the n. Lo siento! Nov-27-13    technical draw: The ñ is actually a whole letter by itself with certain characteristics. In other words it not just an n with a line on top, just like the Q is not an O with a line. Respect! Nov-27-13    WannaBe: R-E-S-P-E-C-T You don't know what it means to me, R-E-S-P-E-C-T... Oh, never mind. Nov-27-13    playground player: <technical draw> Actually, I knew that. I remember the alphabet I learned in high school Spanish, with the letters we don't have in English--che (ch), el-yay (ll), and en-yay (still can't do that on my keyboard). Oh, and airrr-ray (rr, the rolled r). Have I forgotten any? Nov-27-13    Jim Bartle: Questions begin with "¿" and exclamations with "¡". Nov-27-13    Deus Ex Alekhina: Well, finally a Lions turkey-day game that has meaning. And Green Bay fans love coming to Detroit so they can deep fry their turkey while tailgating, altho they are so fanatical they could eat it raw or frozen. And I think the "Booty Bus" is making its return. How much is the cover charge? BTW, the Lions committed 5 turnovers in their last game - I wonder, did the 0-16 Lions ever commit 5 turnovers in any one game of that disastrous season? Nov-27-13    WannaBe: Let's not mention that Lions have not won a Thx'g'n Game since.... Nov-27-13    Phony Benoni: <playground player> I produce the "ñ" by holding down the ALT key and typing the number 164 on the numerica keypad. Of course, if you don't have an ALT key or a numeric keypad, this may not work for you. Nov-27-13    technical draw: <I learned in high school Spanish, with the letters we don't have in English--che (ch),> And just when you finally learn it the RALE- (Real Academia de la Lengua Española)-decides earlier this year to remove the ch as an official letter. Now it's just a c followed by an h. ¡Joder!... Nov-27-13    Jim Bartle: A lot of operating systems have a "keyboard language" option. If you change it to Spanish, the "ñ" is where the ";" is on an English keyboard, under the right pinkie. Also, the key to the right of "p" becomes the accent, which you type just before typing the letter you want to have the accent. Otherwise, the letters are the same on both keyboards. Nov-27-13    technical draw: A lot easier: Get a Mac. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 528 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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