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 605 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jul-26-14    perfidious: <Jim> With anything less than that rotation fronted by Koufax and Drysdale, Dodgers don't win anything. 'Course, they almost did not in '65 and the worm turned the next year. Jul-26-14    Jim Bartle: We kids, and lots of adults, too, screamed every day in 1965 and 1966 ow the Dodgers didn't have any hitters, that they scored runs only with bloopers and infield hits on that rockhard infield. Their 13-game winning streak in September of 1965 (after SF had opened up a lead with a 14-game streak) drove us nuts, as they seemed to get luckier in each game. We never complained about their pitching, though. Except for that Phil Regan who doctored the ball! Jul-26-14    OhioChessFan: <JB> the Braves of the 90's did that too. Absolutely drove me out of my mind. Jul-26-14    Jim Bartle: They had some OK pitchers as well. But at least they had Chipper Jones, David Justice, and Fred McGriff, real hitters all. Jul-27-14    Phony Benoni: The old 4-3-2 double play. http://m.mlb.com/video/v34830517/bo... I know you can get a big lead off second when the shift is on, but that was certainly pushing his luck. Jul-27-14    perfidious: Braves had a terrific run, which we may never see the likes of again, but their Waterloo was hitting in the postseason. Bit more production might have garnered those teams more than the one WS ring. Jul-27-14    WannaBe: Re: Braves, maybe it was those 3-days rest... http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/p... Jul-27-14    perfidious: Second season in the minors, at A ball, Greg Maddux 'ran out of gas', according to a scouting report: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on... Jul-28-14    OhioChessFan: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/... Strike 3! Jul-28-14    Phony Benoni: You know, at that level it's really easy for a catcher to let a pitch get past him. Just saying. Jul-28-14    Jim Bartle: While looking for videos of umpires getting hit (there are some nasty ones) I found this of Brett Lawrie throwing his helmet at the umpire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCw... But look at the two strike calls. The first pitch was a bit outside, but it wasn't a terrible call. And Lawrie did run toward first, considered showing up the umpire. The second (third) strike was clearly an intentionally bad call. No way it was a strike and the ump called it out of spite. I've never seen that so clearly. Lawrie shouldn't have thrown his helmet (I assume he was suspended), but he was right to argue. Jul-28-14    WannaBe: While listening to the LAD-SF game last night, the announcers for Giants, the pitchers/batters on both sides weren't too pleased with home plate umpire either. Alfonso Marquez. Johnny Miller kept on teasing Alfonso, saying batters rate him C-, while pitchers give him A+. You never know if the pitch is going to be ball or strike. During one inning, Miller even went on to say Alfonso is a "Coin-Toss Umpire", he toss a coin and if head, strike. Jul-28-14    Phony Benoni: Josh Harrison does it again: http://nesn.com/2014/07/pittsburgh-... And the Rockies are lucky somebody remembered to cover home. Jul-28-14    WannaBe: Okay, the score was 4 to 4, if Pirates were ahead, I think it'd be a hoot if he raced home and see if the other guy (pitcher??) can sprint, catch the ball, AND tag him... I'd say he would have been safe. Jul-28-14    Phony Benoni: Judging from the video, he was completely gassed when he reached third. (Remember that he had started from first, and the game was at Colorado). it probably wouldn't have been a good gamble. Jul-28-14    WannaBe: Okay, what if the game was at Death Valley!??! Safe by a mile (high)!??! =)) Jul-28-14    Thanh Phan: Probably a bit late, found a cute football ninja gif http://www.shockmansion.com/wp-cont... Jul-29-14    Phony Benoni: <Thanh Phan> That's ... something. I'm not sure what, but it's something. Jul-29-14    playground player: <Esteemed Baseball Mavens> In 1941, when Ted Williams hit .400 and DiMaggio had his 56-game hitting streak... who led the American League in hits? No fair peeking. Jul-29-14    Jim Bartle: DiMaggio. Williams walked so often I don't think he ever led the league in hits. Jul-29-14    OhioChessFan: The question as presented is clearly looking for someone other than those 2. Jul-29-14    Jim Bartle: I guess, but I have no idea who else it could be. I checked and Williams never did lead the league in hits. Jul-29-14    WannaBe: 2015 Eligibles, plus who ever is left over from 2014 (not listed) Rich Aurilia, Aaron Boone, Paul Byrd, Tony Clark, Carlos Delgado, David Dellucci, Jermaine Dye, Alan Embree, Darin Erstad, Kelvim Escobar, Cliff Floyd, Nomar Garciaparra, Brian Giles, Tom Gordon, Eddie Guardado, Randy Johnson, Mark Loretta, Pedro Martinez, Ramon Martinez, Doug Mientkiewicz, Kevin Millar, Troy Percival, B.J. Ryan, Jason Schmidt, Gary Sheffield, John Smoltz, Julian Tavarez, Jarrod Washburn, David Weathers I'd go with Smoltz, Big Unit, possssssibly Pedro Mart... Jul-29-14    perfidious: <Jim> No surprise there; as you say, Williams walked so often, he never had 200 hits in a season. Jul-29-14    Jim Bartle: Johnson and Pedro are shoo-ins. Should be one memorable induction speech there. Smoltz will probably make it in a few years. Sheffield has the career numbers but didn't seem to make much of an impression, at least a longterm one. Hurts that he bounced from team to team. Garciaparra looked like a sure thing, then got injured a bit and then his career went relatively in the tank. I suspect he was a serious juicer. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 605 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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