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 590 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jun-16-14    YouRang: Gwynn believed his cancer resulted from chewing tobacco. Jun-17-14    playground player: 3,200+ hits, .338 lifetime average over 20 seasons (.338!)... Tony Gwynn forever. Jun-17-14    Jim Bartle: I heard Gwynn batted .300 against 15 Cy Young winners, and .400 against 8 of them. Jun-17-14    WannaBe: <JB> So, the other 7 held Gwynn to .200? =)) Jun-17-14    Jim Bartle: Under .300 at least. Years ago Greg Maddux was saying that major league pitchers just can't pick up changes in thre speed of pitches, and that was how he kept them off balance. "Except that damn Tony Gwynn." Jun-17-14    Phony Benoni: Maddux was one of the .400 guys: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... By the way, have you seen the Google search screen today? Hilarious. Jun-17-14    Jim Bartle: Hideo Nomo appears to be victim number one (.560) among those who faced Gwynn more than 20 times. Jun-17-14    Travis Bickle: Hey Phony, here's an article on Michael Jordan... The Greatest Basketball Player of all Time! ; P http://www.csnne.com/boston-celtics... Jun-17-14    WannaBe: <JB> We still talking about Cy Young Winners? Becasue Nomo won Rookie, but never Cy Young. Jun-17-14    Jim Bartle: No, I meant the entire list. Jun-17-14    WannaBe: I blame this all on <Travis Bickle> http://news.yahoo.com/nuns-sue-stri... Jun-17-14    Phony Benoni: Travis, I stopped reading the article after he misspelled Bill Laimbeer's name. How can such an idiot be taken seriously? But I wil say the Spurs are the kind of team I can root for. Jun-17-14    WannaBe: If I stand between fair and foul, say third base line, on a pop up, the ball hit my glove and I drop it is it fair or foul? Does it matter if I am beyond third base or in front of it? (Like a batted ball, fair or foul?) Does it matter if the dropped ball lands in fair/foul territory? The reason for this question, is because ChiSox-SF game, Sox had bases loaded, one out, batter hits a sky high pop up. Home plate ump immediately called infield fly rule, if the ball is fair. Of course, if its foul, Giants want it to be caught. So, if the third baseman or first baseman just happens to be standing on the line, what is the call? Jun-17-14    Jim Bartle: You made it past the misspelled "Isiah"? I said forget it when I read, "Up until MJ took over the NBA in the 1990s, pro basketball had been a team game." What a load of manure. Jun-17-14    Jim Bartle: In any position, fair or foul on a fly ball is determined by the position of the glove when the ball touches it. Jun-17-14    Phony Benoni: Rule 2.00 actually says the relative position of the ball and the foul line, but surely that amounts to the same thing as the "glove" rule. Change <WannaBe>'s scenario a little: Bottom of the ninth, winning run on third, less than two out. Batter hits a deep fly ball to right near the foul line. If the ball is foul the fielder will let it drop, since he has no chance of throwing out the runner at the plate. If it's fair, he would not be allowed to deflect it foul. There's no Hail Mary in baseball. Jun-17-14    Jim Bartle: In the sixth game of the 1975 Series, the Sox had the bases loaded with no outs when Lynn hit a medium foul fly which Foster caught and threw Denny Doyle out at the plate. It was a good throw by a not-great outfielder, and it worked. And had Doyle scored, it would not have become one of the all-time great games. But even though the announcers never mentioned it (Tim McCarver would have analyzed it in detail), I think the best play would have been to let the ball drop foul. Jun-17-14    Phony Benoni: On the other hand, with Fred Lynn hitting, you might want to take a risk to retire him. Jun-18-14    Jim Bartle: Yes, a very tough choice, especially since Lynn had already hit a home run. Plus it wasn't easy for Foster to know the ball was foul. What made the throw really hard was he was throwing right down the line over the runner, but he got him by plenty. Jun-18-14    Phony Benoni: And that's what makes such games great. Even the best players do more than you expect of them. Jun-18-14    Travis Bickle: <Phony Benoni: Travis, I stopped reading the article after he misspelled Bill Laimbeer's name. How can such an idiot be taken seriously? But I wil say the Spurs are the kind of team I can root for.> Laimbeer played basketball?? I thought he was in the WWE the rotten dirty coward. I'd like to see that chicken sh*% Laimbeer try those dirty flagrant fouls on a guy like Dick Butkus, & Bill would he'd get his nose broken & his teeth knocked out! P.S. Yeah I know Butkus played football so save the sarcasm... Jun-18-14    Travis Bickle: <Jim Bartle: You made it past the misspelled "Isiah"? I said forget it when I read, "Up until MJ took over the NBA in the 1990s, pro basketball had been a team game." What a load of manure.> Shut up Bartle! What do you know about sports except 1950's baseball! http://youtu.be/sUz3ZYfoNxo Jun-18-14    Travis Bickle: Jordan was a great Champion because he would not be denied a victory! These are just his dunks! http://youtu.be/jHOzvqqyxow Jun-18-14    Jim Bartle: What are you complaining about? I'm saying the Bulls played team-first ball, including Jordan. Jun-18-14    perfidious: Watching Butkus attempt to lumber up and down the floor would have had amusement potential before his knees gave out. The author also managed to spell Wilkes' forename with one less 'a' than the man uses. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 590 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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