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 558 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-11-14    OhioChessFan: I'm guessing the writer wants to be deemed a serious journalist and not posting a fluff piece. Feb-11-14    Travis Bickle: Hey Phony is bowling & shootin' pool Olympic Sports, because I could go for the Gold in those games! ; P P.S. I'd like to try that Luge, it reminds me of driving on the Dan Ryan expressway. ; P Feb-11-14    Karpova: The chess info comes from the official site: http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete... <Hobbies: Travelling, playing chess. (rsport.ru, 15 Aug 2013; enp-mo.ru, 03 Dec 2012)> Feb-11-14    Phony Benoni: <Karpova> Thanks for that. <Reason for taking up this sport> "She used to practise martial arts, but a coach suggested she should try skating." I'm still trying to figure out that connection. Feb-11-14    Phony Benoni: I dunno, <Travis>. I get a whole different image combining "Travis Bickle" and "luger". Feb-11-14    WannaBe: http://news.yahoo.com/detroit-bankr... Feb-11-14    Phony Benoni: It's said that the current map of the Detroit lighting system consists of a map on a bulletin-board with push-pins. No joke. Feb-11-14    WannaBe: I smell the fresh cut grass, dirt being dragged and those chalk lines being drawn... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04KQ... NCAA baseball starts this week!!! Defending Champion UCLA will host Portland U. at Jackie Robinson Stadium! Feb-14-14    WannaBe: We (may) have the dumbest-athlete of 2014 winner (yet, it's only mid-Feb) http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1... Feb-14-14    Jim Bartle: <I smell the fresh cut grass, dirt being dragged and those chalk lines being drawn...>...the ping of the bat. Feb-14-14    WannaBe: Just read this, NCAA wants to increase scoring (after they modified the aluminum bat, that brought down the number of runs...) http://www.baseballamerica.com/coll... Feb-14-14    Jim Bartle: What? Scoring dropped below 8 runs per team? Feb-15-14    perfidious: Not sure which incident was more foolish: l'affaire Reed or lottery winner Jack Whittaker going for more than a half-million after leaving a suitcase in his car at a strip club. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_...(lottery_winner)#Legal_and_personal_problems Feb-17-14    OhioChessFan: <College student makes half-court shot, school refuses to give him his $10k prize> http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-ba... Feb-18-14    WannaBe: Jamaican Bobsleders wearing watermelon helmet. http://newsone.com/2900734/winston-... Feb-19-14    WannaBe: Men Hockey Semis USA/Canada and Sweden/Finland nothing like playing your neighbours. Feb-19-14    Phony Benoni: They use the Swiss System in Olympic hockey? Feb-19-14    WannaBe: NCAA at its finest! http://espn.go.com/college-football... Feb-19-14    WannaBe: Swiss Women Hockey can do something incredible, win-less in the preliminaries, and win bronze! Feb-20-14    OhioChessFan: NCAA rules are pasta point of no return. Feb-20-14    Jim Bartle: Reminds me of the time Utah coach Rick Majerus bought a meal for a penniless player who was traveling, and was sanctioned for it. (Not traveling as in LeBron on the court; traveling as in going to a different location.) Feb-20-14    WannaBe: Wow, Swiss women won the Bronze! Feb-20-14    playground player: <Esteemed Baseball Connoisseurs> Something crossed my mind this morning that had been buried for decades--one of those painful, delayed, what-have-I-done moments. This is worse than clipping your vintage baseball cards to your bicycle so they'll make a putt-putt sound. My first baseball glove was a hand-me-down from my father--a Larry French model, circa 1940. Larry French! It was lavishly padded, with all five fingers separate, and instead of a pad between the thumb and forefinger, it had a web of leather straps. I guess I was 10 years old or just a little more. The glove was a bit too big for me, but I could indeed catch baseballs with it (don't ask me how). But it was so different from all the other kids' equipment, it made me feel out of step; so I tried to modernize it by poking holes in the fingers and connecting them with plastic twine, and getting rid of the leather web and replacing it with a pad scavenged from somebody else's glove. The end product looked awful and didn't work as well as the original, and wound up getting thrown out. If I wanted a genuine Larry French glove today, I'd have to look long and hard for it, and pay a lot of money when I found it. Aaaaaagh! Feb-20-14    Travis Bickle: Hey Phony, I found a photo of you working in your library as a clerk many years before you received your Honorary Doctarship! ; P https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/ya/do... Feb-20-14    WannaBe: Ugh, U.S. Women lost, again, to the neighbour up north... Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 558 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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