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 589 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jun-10-14    Phony Benoni: The Strikeout: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26fR... The Revenge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrEQ... The "19" on Welch's uniform was in honor of Jim Gilliam, who had died during the LCS after suffering a stroke in September. Jun-10-14    Jim Bartle: Man, those were great. Garagiola was just right as the announcer. Jun-10-14    WannaBe: Remember Welch fondly for his Dodgers years. Jun-11-14    Travis Bickle: Hey my pal Phony, The Chicago Bears are considered #1 out of 8 teams to host the HBO cable series 'Hard Knocks'! Which is HBO Sports doing a documentary on an NFL teams training camp (all of August). I think it would be great! What do you think? Oh, you don't have cable do you? Your pal, Travis http://www.csnchicago.com/bears/wil... Jun-11-14    playground player: Nothing like baseball nostalgia to soothe a troubled soul... I can't believe Bob Welch has died. He was only 57. Maybe he slipped in the shower: cause of death has not yet been released. I have rediscovered Dizzy Dean. Here's a clip of him singing <The Wabash Cannonball>. (How many Hall of Fame pitchers have a trademark song?) http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.n... Growing up in the New York media market, Dean's Game of the Week broadcasts were blacked out and I never saw him until 1973, when GOTW brought him back for one more game. A wonderful body of folklore has grown up around Dizzy Dean, and I'm greatly enjoying it. With a little luck, he could wind up as a character in The Mabinogion. Jun-11-14    Jim Bartle: The first games I ever saw on TV were Dizzy Dean games, sponsored by Falstaff beer. I just thought that was the way announcers talked. Jun-11-14    Phony Benoni: No, Travis, I don't have cable, and in this case I don't particularly care. I saw Paper Lion, and that was enough Reality TV Football for me. Jun-11-14    Jim Bartle: Hve you read "Paper Lion"? A hundred times better than the movie, because Plimpton writes about the bad as well as the good. Jun-11-14    perfidious: The players in the very first puzzle posted at this page: <Phony Benoni: And, since I was a history major in the old days, I should mention the source: Paul Motta (2152)--Ron Pasik (1917), Oregon Open, 1990.> Got to play Pasik on the other coast once, at the 1976 US Junior event. Believe it was a draw in a Najdorf--why not one of those, after all, as both games Pasik has in the DB feature him as White in the Najdorf. Jun-11-14    hangingenprise: interesting how love the new kremlin putin is reemphasizing russian chess and putting money into the russian chess programs! Jun-12-14    Jim Bartle: The headline is that Cespedes has made two great throws in two days. But he only got to make them because he kicked the ball away on both plays and runners tried to take an extra base. What Bill James said Lonnie Smith was expert at. Notice on the Pujols play that he's just coasting between first and second when the ball gets by Cespedes. Then he starts running hard. If he'd been going full speed he would have reached third safely. Jun-12-14    WannaBe: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/... Jun-13-14    Phony Benoni: Watching the MLB highlights of the Tigers and White Sox tonight, I caught a fragment of trivia that startled me. Chris Sale of the Sox struck out 10. This is the 13th time he's had double-digit strikeouts in a game, which in Sox history trails only Ed Walsh with 18. I listened again to be sure. Yes, they're talking lifetime, no a single year. Then I looked up Sandy Koufax in 1965. 21 double-digit strikeout games that year alone. Ooof. Jun-13-14    Jim Bartle: What about Ryan or Carlton? Or Tom Seaver? Jun-13-14    Phony Benoni: Ryan had 23 in 1973. Need to find a list. Jun-13-14    Jim Bartle: New song "Nolan Ryan." but something doesn't seem quite right. http://survivingthegoldenage.com/wp... Jun-14-14    WannaBe: Chuck Noll passed away... =( Jun-14-14    perfidious: Noll was a fine coach; it was unfortunate that he was sentimental when it came to the players who helped him win all those rings. Jun-14-14    Travis Bickle: Hey Mr Benoni, how ya feelin' pal? I just wanted to inform you that my Beloved Chicago Bears won't be on the mini doc of HBO's 'Hard Knocks', the boring, lousy, stinking Atlanta Falcons volunteered... : 0 Jun-14-14    Phony Benoni: Frankly, Travis, if I had to follow a team all year and had a choice between Chicago and Atlanta in December ... well, no contest. They probably also figured that the Falcons were going to have a lousier year than the Bears, leading to more juicy internal conflicts and more excuses to cover the cheerleaders. Jun-15-14    WannaBe: Steroid testing?! http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-b... Jun-16-14    Phony Benoni: A shocker. Tony Gwynn dead, from cancer: http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/1... Jun-16-14    perfidious: RIP, my man; you could plain hit. Jun-16-14    WannaBe: Ouch, great player, from my home town Long Beach. =( Jun-16-14    Jim Bartle: That's rough. I think broadcasters and journalists should interview these retired players, even when there's no news. Appreciate them while they are alive. For example, Buster Olney does this, recently interviewing Don Newcombe and Mike Schmidt among others. Not suggesting Schmidt will soon die. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 589 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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