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 588 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jun-05-14    Jim Bartle: Nice interview of Don Newcombe ("Mr. Newcombe") by Buster Olney on today's Baseball Tonight podcast. Favorite opponent? Stan Musial. "He wore me out. And he liked to remind me of it later in life." "But there weren't many men on base when you came up, right?" "That's right, Don." Interview starts at about 34:30. Jun-05-14    Travis Bickle: Hey Phony since the Blackhawks threw the series for the Stanley Cup, $$$$$$$, we only have 4 months until NFL football!! ; P Jun-05-14    Phony Benoni: Yes, Travis, this is the best time of the year for Lions football. They're always one of the best teams in the league before Labor Day. Jun-05-14    WannaBe: Another how (fast) time goes by. Angels at Astros, http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/boxsc... Under Angels pitchers, you see 'C Bedrosian', that is Cameron (Cam), the YOUNGEST son of Steve. I remember his dad pitching for the Phillies. Jun-06-14    Jim Bartle: The younger Bedrosian's nickname should be "Pebble." Jun-06-14    Phony Benoni: Doink. http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/sto... Aoki was able to stay in the game. Jun-06-14    Jim Bartle: Were the Rockies playing without a rightfielder? http://m.mlb.com/video/v33474749/ar... Jun-06-14    keypusher: <phony benoni> <OK. This may be the ultimate. The state softball championship is decided on a walk-off strikeout. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/... Just imagine playing championship level ball all season long, then, losing like that.> Good God, what happened to the ball after the bad throw to first? The batter wasn't exactly setting the land speed record rounding the bases. Maybe it was the same right fielder as in Jim's inside-the-park HR clip. Jun-06-14    Phony Benoni: <keypusher> The broadcaster on the news show where I saw the play said there were a couple of other throwing errors that didn't show on the video. And I suspect the right fielder may have thought the inning was over an begun running toward the dugout. Jun-07-14    Phony Benoni: David Ortiz might be as big as a house, but I don't think he'll ever qualify as Dr. House: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb... Jun-09-14    Phony Benoni: Astros hit two grand slams in the same game. Here's the only other time they did it: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Jun-09-14    Jim Bartle: Has anybody ever seen a player throw his bat onto the field intentionally the way Machado did? http://mlb.si.com/2014/06/08/manny-... And remember, this all started when Machado thought he had been tagged too hard, which was ridiculous. Jun-09-14    Phony Benoni: <JB> Not exactly the same, but there was the Bert Campaneris incident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2pR... I've seen Billy Martin get angrier. Jun-09-14    Jim Bartle: I'd never seen that before. Jun-09-14    Phony Benoni: Perhaps I'm wrong, but this broadcaster does not seem particularly objective: http://www.realclearsports.com/list... Jun-09-14    Phony Benoni: And, you know, I never realized before that Jack Buck said "And the <Tigers> have won the game!" http://www.realclearsports.com/list... Jun-09-14    WannaBe: Should have brought a bucket KFC, a la Major League. http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/1... How cold does it get in Nov/Dec at Jax?? No, I don't predict Jax will be playing home games in Jan. http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1... Jun-09-14    Phony Benoni: I am trying to imagine the Jacksonville version of the Lambeau Leap. Jun-09-14    WannaBe: Cannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnon ball!!!!!! Jun-09-14    WannaBe: Wow, S. Baker (TEX) really took one for the team against Cleveland. Jun-10-14    Benzol: <PB> I really had a good laugh at your <The Man Who Broke the Frank at Monte Carlo.> pun. May St. Jerome always watch over you. :) Jun-10-14    WannaBe: Blast from the past, pages 1 and 2 (of this forum) are great read. On page 1, I teaches <Phony> on how to convert games to PGN, by page 2, he is posting games/PGNs of <Resignation Trap>. Not to mention we have historical posts by <JoeWms>. Jun-10-14    Phony Benoni: <WannaBe> By the way, I'm still using the same version of ChessBase--which was several years old even then. One of these days, they'll come out will a new, fancy, up-to-date super-computer that won't install it, and I shall shrivel up and die. Jun-10-14    hangingenprise: wow bullet bob welch passed away. who can forget the dual between reggie and bob. as reggie stated in later years his ball had a lot of "hair" coming to the plate. Jun-10-14    Jim Bartle: I remember that at-bat. Reggie fouled off several pitches. Struck out on monster swing on 3-2, tried to blame it on distraction of runner breaking off second. Silly. Reggie got him back later, though, with a big home run. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 588 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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