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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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   Phony Benoni has kibitzed 18634 times to chessgames [more...]

   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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Living in the Past

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Sep-01-14		Jim Bartle: What's happened to the 49ers? They were always classy, even when they weren't a good team. Now it's one arrest after another, pretty much since Harbaugh became the coach.

Sep-01-14		OhioChessFan: < Can anybody understand this double play from 1949? What about the infield fly rule? Berra tagged home and ran to third to tag a runner? TIGERS 1ST: Campbell walked; Kolloway walked [Campbell to second]; Kell was hit by a pitch [Campbell to third, Kolloway to second]; Wertz hit into a double play to second [Kolloway out at third (second to catcher), Campbell stayed at third, Kell stayed at first]; Snuffy Stirnweiss dropped the infield fly; he threw the ball to Yogi Berra who stepped on HP and ran to 3B; after Berra tagged Don Kolloway the Yankees insisted this was a triple play but 3B umpire Red Jones ruled Stirnweiss dropped the ball intentionally; Evers singled to center [Campbell scored, Kell to second]; Groth grounded out (third to first);> Batter out on infield fly rule. One out. Throw home was irrelevant other than identifying the person who is credited with the second putout. Touching home by Berra was irrelevant. The runner from second, Kolloway, didn't need to run once the infield fly rule was called. He did so anyway and was tagged somewhere near, or on, third base. Two outs. The runner on third, Campbell, didn't need to run and didn't. If he and Kolloway both were standing on third, and both were tagged, Kolloway was properly called out. There was no legitimate claim for a triple play. An intentional dropping of the ball had no bearing on whether the runner originally on third would be out or not. I don't recall if there is something about intentionally dropping the ball to confuse the runners in that situation, maybe, I lean toward no.

Sep-01-14		Jim Bartle: Makes sense. But then "ruled...dropped the ball intentionally" has to be wrong, because it wouldn't matter.

Sep-01-14		WannaBe: Baseball Statistics/Scoring Question: Today, Rockies had runner on first and second base, they both took off, the man going from first got caught at second. But the runner from second was safe at third, what are the individual/team statistic that should be recorded in the book? I looked it up and know the answer. :-)

Sep-01-14		OhioChessFan: 1 caught stealing. 0 stolen base. Didn't need to look it up.

Sep-01-14		WannaBe: <OhioChessFan> Correct! I thought it was (ac)credited as SB for the 3rd base, and CS for 2nd base. Then I started thinking, what is the stat for the poor catcher? Doesn't seem quite fair... So I looked it up! =)

Sep-02-14		Boomie: <re: Cannons in right field> In the mid 60's my family lived in Sedalia, Missouri. One weekend, my Dad took my brother and I to St. Louis to see a Cardinals game. The Pirates were in town. With a man on 2nd and 1 out, a long fly ball was hit to right field, but it was caught on the warning track. The fielder threw a strike to 3rd base on the fly. That was Roberto Clemente. The funny part was the guy on 2nd didn't even try to tag up and advance...heh.

Sep-02-14		WannaBe: More 'Funny' box score on that SF-COL continuation game and the game that followed: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-b...

Sep-02-14		perfidious: No surprise that Clemente led the National League in assists multiple times, but I was taken aback to note that he led in errors even more often.

Sep-02-14		Jim Bartle: Bill James hath decreed that a large number of errors is not necessarily indicative of a poor fielder. It may occur with a player who reaches many more balls than others. He wrote that Clemente had some of the best fielding statistics of any outfielder, if you know how to read them. And I say outfield assists is a strange stat, since they are dependent on runners challenging the fielder's arm. Clemente might have zero assists because nobody rsn on him, and Lonnie Smith had a hundred in his career because runners thought they could always take a base on him.

Sep-02-14		perfidious: <Jim> James wrote thus of Tony Fernandez, who made a mass of errors early on, because he had tremendous range at short, so got to everything. Too bad the injuries derailed what may well have been a great career.

Sep-02-14		WannaBe: Strange game between DET-CLE, Tigers pounded out 12 hits (so far) and have one run to show for it. Ugh...

Sep-02-14		Phony Benoni: You don't have to remind me. Molasses could take this team's correspondence course.

Sep-02-14		Phony Benoni: Up to 14 hits now, and still their only run came on a bases-loaded walk.

Sep-02-14		Phony Benoni: Finally. Hit 15 was a three run homer.

Sep-03-14		Phony Benoni: Hey, Travis! I've been out of touch for a few days, playing chess (if you remember what that's like). Thanks for your good wishes to the Lions, and good luck to your Bears as well. The Packers can sit on their frozen tundras for all I care.

Sep-03-14		perfidious: Maybe <PB> was watching a Red Sox game and confused their uniforms with Tigers'. Sounds entirely too familiar this season. The sorry ledger: shut out thirteen times to date, held to three or fewer hits eleven times and one-hit thrice. Small wonder they are last in runs scored, all while playing in a park which favours the hitter.

Sep-04-14		crawfb5: I've been going through Woodger's book on Fine, fixing game dates where possible. Fine played in three Hastings tournaments, so that should provide dates for those events. 1935/6, 1936/7, and 1937/8 all had rounds on the same dates: 1 – 28 December 2 – 29 December 3 – 30 December 4 – 1 January 5 – 2 January 6 – 3 January 7 – 4 January 8 – 5 January 9 – 6 January Of course this could probably be inferred, as there seems to have been no rest days.

Sep-04-14		Phony Benoni: <crawfb5> The overall dates agree with those given in Di Felice, and there is a rest day on December 31. However, my book of Alekhine's games gives the rest day in 1936/37 as January 3, so it looks as though the individual dates still need to be worked on. By the way, I've stopped work on about everything except the US Open. And I don't hang around the Bistro at all. Can't keep up with the kids anymore.

Sep-05-14		WannaBe: Tiger Woods should play this golf course, have a good chance of making the cut. http://espn.go.com/minor-league-bas...

Sep-05-14		Phony Benoni: Probably not. He'd keep getting ground rule double bogeys.

Sep-06-14		Travis Bickle: Hey my Good Pal Phony! I was just on Playchess.com & was having my ass handed to me in blitz games for what seemed like 1,000 games! But I hung in there like Rocky Balboa & won a sweet victory!! I was down a piece but with pawns to push... "& that has made all the difference"! P.S. Mr Benoni, with all that exciting Tigers baseball to watch you haven't been talking too much football... Now that the Tigers charge the most for beer what about your lions? ; P

Sep-06-14		Phony Benoni: Travis, the Lions are right up there too. But there's a good reason. Fabs have learned that the team looks best when your vision is blurry! Long time Lions fans aren't getting excited. This new coach talks the talk, but there was little sign in the preseason that this team has learned to play smart football. It's even money that Caldwell has that traditional Deer in the Headlights look by midseason.

Sep-06-14		Phony Benoni: Meanwhile, the Tigers lost again today, Michigan State couldn't keep up with Oregon, and Michigan is getting humiliated by Notre Dame. At least Central Michigan beat Purdue, Eastern Michigan held Florida under 70 points, and Western Michigan probably picked a good week for a bye.

Sep-07-14		Jim Bartle: Sounds like it's time to establish Northern Michigan.

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