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 583 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> May-21-14    WannaBe: So... While diggin' around to see how many games in history have ended on a balk, I came across this little gem, from 2012. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2... May-21-14    WannaBe: I found this list, dated 2011, http://www.hardballtimes.com/tht-li... surprised there's no wiki page on balk-offs. Wiki do have a page on walk-off HRs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk-o... May-21-14    Jim Bartle: From the Hardball link: <Steverson, who was filling in for the usual Ports manager who was on vacation...> Managers go on vacation? May-21-14    Phony Benoni: Rather unfair point about managing the bullpen better. At Class A, there is no doubt a very strict pitch count. Bu, as much as you may sympathize with the guy, that's over the line. May-22-14    Shams: <“My response is we do it all,” Weiss said. “We’ve got a light bulb on the scoreboard we flash. Keep an eye on Dinger; he’s involved. We switch out the balls. We’ve got the umpires in on it. I love it when other teams talk about that. I think it just feeds the beast."> --Rockies manager Walt Weiss, responding to a suggestion made by a Giants broadcaster that Colorado was stealing signs. http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/05/col... May-22-14    WannaBe: "Can you guys play harder, try harder? Pleeeeeease? Pretty please? Sugar on top?" http://www.myfoxla.com/story/255837... May-22-14    Phony Benoni: If the other team shouldn't steal signs, why is it necessary to use them? May-22-14    Jim Bartle: In the 80s a friend mailed me videos of games, which I watched over and over. One A's game included Walt Weiss' ignominious major league debut. He was sent in to pinch run for McGwire in the ninth and was immediately picked off. May-22-14    Phony Benoni: Somebody probably stole the "steal" sign. May-22-14    WannaBe: Teams ERA drops 0.0000001 http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s... May-22-14    Phony Benoni: Six Hours and Three Minutes? The Yankees and Red Sox would just be at the seventh-inning stretch. May-22-14    Phony Benoni: IT is not good when your starting pitcher can't survive the 4th the day after a 11-10 loss in 13 innings. This is the sort of think that can happen: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/det... May-23-14    WannaBe: Ooopsies... http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-b... May-23-14    Jim Bartle: Redundant headline for MLB video: "Bautista goes back-to-back with solo shot." May-24-14    playground player: <Esteemed Connoisseurs of Baseball> I happened to be looking at Don Mattingly's stats for 1984: AL batting champion, .343; 207 hits, lead the league in doubles with 44; second in slugging percentage... But what really grabbed my eye was this: 603 at bats, <and only 33 strikeouts>. How do you finish a very close second in slugging (Harold Baines was first by .004) and only whiff 33 times? Is anybody doing that kind of thing today? May-24-14    Jim Bartle: Mattingly was unbelievable 1984-87. Only 30-40 strikeouts a year. Too bad he became so injured. Nobody likes the back-to-back home run headline? May-24-14    perfidious: <Jim> Glad that writer explained it for us. (laughs) May-24-14    Phony Benoni: <playground player> At the moment, Victor Martinez of the Tigers leads the AL in slugging percentage and has struck out only twelve times in about one-fourth of the season. However, I wouldn't expect to keep up either number for the entire year. As good as Mattingly was, I don't think he was close to Stan Musial's 1948 season: http://www.baseball-reference.com/p... Besides slugging percentage, Musial let the league in runs, hits, doubles, triples, batting average, RBIs, and was only one off the lead in home runs--and struck out only 34 times. Despite his good numbers, Musial still managed to have the best WAR in the league: http://www.baseball-reference.com/l... A glance at the league leaders shows how much he was dominating each categody. Note, too, that the strikeout leader that year had only 85. Different game. May-24-14    Jim Bartle: Musial's "Appearances on Leaderboards, Awards and Honors" seems to go on forever. He is also the inspiration for one of the greatest nicknames ever: Don Stanhouse, "Stan the Man Unusual." May-24-14    perfidious: Mattingly was probably three more excellent seasons from being a mortal lock for the Hall when his back problems began to exact their toll. Most unfortunate, for he was a fine hitter and fielder and a class act. Maybe he can win a few titles as Dodgers' manager and gain his rightful place in Cooperstown anyway. May-25-14    playground player: <perfidious> Sometimes I think Hall of Fame voting is much too numbers-driven. All of those voters knew that Mattingly's injured back was what shut him down. Until that happened, was there a better player than Don Mattingly in all of baseball? And we're not talking one-year-only awesomeness, like Ron Guidry in 1978. (Then again, who can generate more than one season like that? Very, very few can manage even one.) No, I'll never figure out HOF voting. If you were putting together a team, would you really rather have Rick Ferrell or Ray Schalk as your catcher instead of Thurman Munson? May-25-14    WannaBe: Potential No-No, Beckett for LA, 2BB, 0H May-25-14    Phony Benoni: Waiting for No-No? May-25-14    WannaBe: No-Hitter for J. Beckett!!! May-25-14    Jim Bartle: Beckett? I thought he was washed up five years ago. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 583 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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