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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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Living in the Past

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Dec-27-13		Travis Bickle: Here's a sad story on what happened to 'The Fridge'. http://youtu.be/HW8oLACFp4E

Dec-27-13		Jim Bartle: Of course the design of the defense was important, but it helps when you've eight Pro Bowl guys out there. Strangely Chicago didn't have outstanding cornerbacks. Just think if the'd had a Sanders and a Haynes.

Dec-28-13		Shams: Here's the most informative piece I've ever read about the evolution of NFL defenses. I even wrote the author an appreciative email a couple years ago. The whole thing is well worth reading. In particular, the author's discussion of how Warren Sapp's effectiveness was limited when he moved from Tampa to Oakland is inspired. The 46 gets only limited treatment towards the bottom, in a section titled <The "46" Defense: Why One Of The Best Defenses Ever Has Become A Relic.> As near as I can tell it says the same thing wiki does, but better. http://subscribers.footballguys.com...

Dec-28-13		Jim Bartle: I think the author undermines his argument in the introduction: <It's said that defense wins championships. But it's offense that drives television ratings and merchandise sales. Television broadcasts focus on the path of the football rather than showing an entire play unfold. More often than not, it's the quarterback and his skill position players that attract the attention of most football fans.> The term <skill position> is just insulting to the other players. Every player has skill. It should be <ball-handling position>.

Dec-28-13		OhioChessFan: That's the common terminology.

Dec-28-13		Jim Bartle: Yes, but it's irritating. And terminology changes. For example, basketball players no longer have "height"; they have "length." Receivers don't get "open," they get into "space" or "create separation." All the references to the 4-3-4 and the 4-2-5 in that article reminds me of the time the Kansas defense was penalized for too many men on a key play in a Bowl game around 1970. Afterward coach Pepper Rodgers said, "I always found the 6-3-3 defense to be effective."

Dec-28-13		perfidious: <Shams>: Indeed that was excellent work on the NFL. Adjustment, constant adjustment. Bit like chess theory in a way, as well as playing poker against capable opposition.

Dec-28-13		Jim Bartle: I can understand how defenses can stop the run, but not how it's possible to stop a competent passing team. Unless the rush gives the quarterback no time at all. The world's best cornerback cannot stay one on one with a typical wide receiver, except to keep from getting beat. There's just no way. And zone defenses are so complicated and have to react perfectly to so many possible routes. It just doesn't seem possible.

Dec-28-13		playground player: <Jim Bartle> Have you done any work on the Caral Supe civilization--visited the sites, interviewed archeologists, etc.? It fascinates me to think of a real civilization thriving in the New World circa 2500 B.C., building its own pyramids while the Egyptians were building theirs--and probably having roots going back to 3000 B.C. or even earlier. The origin of civilization is a long way from being settled, scientifically--although surely the Biblical account of the Flood and its aftermath would explain how civilizations with (at least outwardly) similar features seem to have risen up independently in places very far apart, and yet at roughly the same time. It's frustrating that, for so many of these lost civilizations, we don't have their language, we don't know their history, we don't have the name of even a single person who lived there, and so on.

Dec-28-13		Jim Bartle: I've been to Caral three times, the first when we had to drive across rivers and very little was excavated. Just one or two pyramids, plus a lot of little hills around in the desert, now excavated. But I haven't had anything to do with the excavation. I know a little more about the pyramids of Tucume on the north coast, spent a couple of days with Thor Heyerdahl, who was working there. To tell the truth, it's a pretty dull place unless you're with an archaeologist who knows the story. The construction is very rudimentary, though the circular ceremonial plaza is pretty interesting. The site is considered to be about 5,000 years old. I've spent a lot more time at ChavÃn de HuÃ¡ntar, a very impressive temple just east of the Cordillera Blanca. Lots of interior passages and beautiful stone carvings. It's supposed to date to about 1000 BC. I've also been in the caves of Laguna Lauricocha, on the eastern slope of the Andes, where the oldest human remains were foound, about 10,000 BC. But there's no construction, just a series of caves.

Dec-29-13		playground player: <Jim Bartle> Well, it's awfully interesting, isn't it? And it raises hard questions. If civilization is "wired in," why did it take so long to get started? And if it's not wired in, why or how did it ever get started at all? And finally, how much vital evidence have we just not seen yet? You never know--the very next discovery might just upset the whole apple-cart. BTW, I am not old enough ever to have seen an apple-cart.

Dec-29-13		WannaBe: Let's get this week 17 of NFL started!!

Dec-29-13		WannaBe: This is great, Pittsburgh is winning, Miami is losing, also Baltimore (at Cincy)... Miami, win and they are in. Baltimore, win + MIA loss San Diego, win + MIA + BAL loss Pittsburgh, win + SD + BAL + MIA loss. If the current score holds, Pittsburgh will be the world's biggest KC fan.

Dec-29-13		hangingenprise: good bye schwartz and company an undisciplined lion team

Dec-29-13		WannaBe: KC is ahead of SD (half-time), Pittsburgh will (sneak) make it to the playoffs???

Dec-29-13		Phony Benoni: Boy, did I want KC to win and put Pittsburh in the playoffs. Were they using a back-up kicker too?

Dec-29-13		WannaBe: Once, again. Them Cowgirls can't win a 'must-win' game to reach the play-offs.

Dec-29-13		WannaBe: Pseudo-Bad Day in Texas today, Stars lost to the Blues in hockey and now Eagles won at the Dallas' Billion Dollar 30,000 ft. TV Jumbo-Tron-Screen-Mansion. Good thing the Mavs, Rockets, Astros, and Rangers had the day off.

Dec-30-13		WannaBe: Correction to my previous post, Rockets lost on the road to Oklahoma City Thunders.

Dec-30-13		Phony Benoni: Meanwhile, <Travis> and the Bears get my sympathy. That is a heart-breaking way to lose a playoff berth.

Dec-30-13		Jim Bartle: I'm glad there are rewards for winning the division, no matter what the win-loss record is. So the 12-4 wildcard 49ers have to go to Green Bay to play the 8-7-1 division champ Packers.

Dec-30-13		WannaBe: <JB> Remember 4(?) years ago when 7-9 Seattle won the NFC West? And beat the 'Aints at home?? I think it was the 'Aints...

Dec-30-13		Phony Benoni: Yeah, that was the game with the Marshawn Lynch "Beast Mode" run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSZ...

Dec-30-13		WannaBe: Washington, Cleveland, Minnesota have fired their head coach, (on top of Houston, who already have fired Kubiak). Many more to follow.

Dec-30-13		Jim Bartle: I admit it's pretty embarrassing to have 7-9 or 8-8 teams in the playoffs. Almost happened in the NFC East this year. I really think 8 teams in the playoffs is enough. Make more good teams fight to make it.

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