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 564 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Mar-17-14    perfidious: <Jim> In my last game with Ilya Gurevich, I got into severe time trouble and had the same motif, realising my error as soon as my hand quit the piece. My position went from clearly winning to losing at one stroke, and Ilya eventually converted. Mar-17-14    Travis Bickle: Mr Benoni, I lost an internet game awhile ago playing white against the lousy stinking Petroff defense! : 0 It was a line I wasn't familiar with but I was clearly better... Then I made some real cheapo moves and lost the damn thing!! Like Jackie Gleason would say, "Bang ZOOM!" But Phony I did redeem myself in the next game with the black pieces against The Colle system, with a 21 move checkmate against a higher ranked player! ; P Mar-17-14    hangingenprise: cheap joke department: two young bears meet for the first time. standing on their legs they extended paws and shook. one asked the other what is a world series. the other stated I don't know because we are cubs!! Mar-17-14    Phony Benoni: <hangingenprise> I get that one all the time, except it's a young liion asking his father what a Super Bowl is. <Travis> My first ever published win was against the Pet Rock. For the proof, see p.24: http://206.130.103.122/interim/maga... Yes, I was a real hippie back in those days. Mar-17-14    Travis Bickle: Phony you steamed rolled him! In the style of Fischer... ; P Mar-17-14    Jim Bartle: Did the Pet Rock play the Stonewall Defense? Mar-17-14    Phony Benoni: I had special names for many of the openings. It was boring writing the same thing in that little box, so I mixed things up a bit. Benoni = Baloney Two Knights Defense = Carson's Defense Ruy Lopez = Royal Pez Winawer French = Winawer and Still Champion Anything where Black played ...g6 vs 1.e4: MPRUfKFD (For Modern-Pirc-Robatsch-Ufimistev-King's Fianchetto Defense) Alekhine = Belly achin' And those were some of the better ones. Silly, but good training for making up bad puns here. My personal favorite was playing the Marshall Attack at a tournament in Hollywood, Florida: "Frankie Goes to Hollywood". Mar-19-14    Phony Benoni: OK, I'll get it started: Florida, Iowa State, Arizona, Duke. Florida wins it all in a canter. Mar-19-14    WannaBe: I have Indiana, Butler, USC, and Auburn, with Indiana over Butler in a nail biter. Mar-19-14    Jim Bartle: You think Butler will become the Vikings or Bills of college basketball? Mar-19-14    WannaBe: OK, seriously, now. I have San Diego State, Duke, Michigan State and Kansas as my Final 4. And I have Duke winning over Mich. State. Mar-19-14    WannaBe: Gimme some Cracker Jacks and ear muffs?! http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/1... Mar-20-14    WannaBe: Let the upsets begin!!! Dayton over Ohio State! Haaa-vard leading Cincinnati. Mar-20-14    WannaBe: Harvard up by 6 pts!!! Mar-20-14    perfidious: Crimson got there, for another bracket-buster. Mar-20-14    Phony Benoni: Warren Buffet sleeps well tonight. Mar-20-14    Phony Benoni: Rooting for a Harvard - Stanford match-up. Always enjoyed College Bowl. Mar-20-14    perfidious: <Jim B> would love a go at that one! Mar-20-14    Jim Bartle: I'm surprised Stanford is even in the tournament. Stanford has had quite a few good players over the past twenty years--second-line NBA players, a couple pretty good--but have made the Final Four only once. They have no real stars this year. Mar-20-14    WannaBe: North Dakota State upsets Oklahoma!! And D. Hester signs with ATL Falcons. News at 11. Mar-21-14    WannaBe: Yes, you too, can own a piece of history! http://news.yahoo.com/silverdome-se... Mar-21-14    perfidious: Duke gets served a first-round exit visa for the second time in three years. Mar-21-14    Phony Benoni: At this rate, there might not be a Buffet Brackets alive when the night is over. If there are any left now. Mar-21-14    perfidious: <PB> Last I knew, .002 (one in 500) brackets remained alive. Mar-21-14    WannaBe: Totally predicted Mercer beating Duke, my bracket is still perfect. (Also predicted North Dakota State taking down Oklahoma, too). Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 564 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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