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 617 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-23-14    Travis Bickle: Yo Phony Benoni, our teams are the Top Dogs! 1st place tie! Congrats Phony!! Sep-23-14    Phony Benoni: Well, Travis, seeing that Minnesota will be without Adrian Peterson, we may stand a good chance of staying out of the cellar. Sep-23-14    WannaBe: Me thinkth, if Milwaukee loses tonight, they are eliminated from Wild Card... Sep-23-14    Phony Benoni: Not quite: San Francisco still needs to win. But once Milwaukee is eliminated, the five NL playoff teams are set. Sep-23-14    WannaBe: Pittsburgh Clinches a spot, they are in for the second year in a row. And Tigers win! Tigers win!! Dodgers ahead 3-0 Bottom first, after Puig got hit with a pitch and players decide to come on to the field and say hi to the other team. I don't see San Francisco lose every game here on out <AND> Milwaukee winning every game. So... I am going out on a limb and say Milwaukee is done. Sep-23-14    Phony Benoni: You mean the Dodgers and Giants still don't get along? Sep-24-14    WannaBe: A little oddity from last night's SF-LAD box score, number of pitches taken by a batter. Giants lead-off hitter Blanco had 4AB 1H and 22 pitches, most on SF squad. And that is great, your lead-off guy is taking/looking at pitches. While clean-up hitter Sandoval had 4AB 1H and 8 pitches. (And if you are really bad at math, that is an average of 2 pitches per AB.) If you are Z. Greinke, you should send flowers and presents to Sandoval. Now, for the Dodgers, clean up hitter A. Gonzalez had 4AB 0R 0H 0RBI 0BB 0K and big whopping 6 pitches. You know who saw the most number of pitches for the Dodgers last night? Catcher, 8th place hitter, Ellis, who is batting a big whopping .193, he saw 20 pitches. Sep-24-14    Phony Benoni: With Seattle's loss, the Tigers clinched at least a Wild Card berth. I'm glad to see that nobody is excited. These days, winning the division is all important; you don't want to get stuck in that all-or-nothing wild card game. Sep-25-14    Jim Bartle: True pennant races between good teams ended after 1993, when the leagues went from two to three divisions and added the wild card. Sep-25-14    playground player: <WannaBe> Doesn't the catcher always see the most pitches? Sep-25-14    Phony Benoni: The home plate umpire sees even more. And, yet, despite all the practice, they can't get the calls right. Sep-25-14    WannaBe: As if we have not read/heard enough about Jeter: http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/sto... Good read, by the way. =) Sep-25-14    WannaBe: Wow, that deserved a roughing the QB penalty???? Sep-25-14    WannaBe: Apparently watching football, I've walked meself into a Benoni... http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=219... Sep-25-14    Phony Benoni: Sigh. Get ready to start seeing the replay of Derek Jeter hitting a walk-off single in his final game at Yankee Stadium. It's probably reaching 1,000,000 views on YouTube already. Sep-25-14    WannaBe: By tomorrow morning, 100 Million New Yorkers will say they were at Stadium when that happened. Sep-25-14    Phony Benoni: Buck Showalter, manager of the Orioles, is obviously a man with a strong sense of self-preservation. Imagine the scene at Yankee Stadium The fans have been chanting Derek Jeter's name since batting practice. He already has the "winning" RBI, but only because of a botched play by the Orioles. That's not how a Legend goes out. He's due to bat third in the bottom of the ninth, but the Yankees have a 5-2. Miraculously, Baltimore scores three runs in the top of the inning to tie the game. First batter for the Yankees singles, and is sacrificed to second. Up steps Jeter with the winning run in scoring position. The entire city of New York is poised for the Apocalypse. So I wonder if Buck Showalter considered an intentional walk... Sep-26-14    Travis Bickle: Phony I wonder if Buck Showalter considered beaning Jeter on the noggin'! Sep-26-14    Phony Benoni: Travis, I kind of doubt it. Maybe if it had been the Red Sox playing. Trivia: Jeter played under only three managers during his years with the Yankees. Current manager Joe Giradi, Joe Toree--and Buck Showalter. You think the schedule makers didn't know that? Sep-26-14    Jim Bartle: I listened to a mishmash of the broadcasting calls from last night. All but one were classy, including the Yankees' Michael Kay and especially Gary Thorne and Jim Palmer of the Orioles. But the "theeeeee Yankees win!" guy, don't know his name, was just plain embarrassing, an avalanche of blather. Sep-26-14    WannaBe: DBacks have fired Gibson, interesting thing is, the new incoming GM is Dave Stewart... Sep-26-14    WannaBe: Oh, geeze, someone really screwed this one up... http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-s... Sep-26-14    Phony Benoni: How could things be so bad that you couldn't wait three days to fire the manager? Sep-26-14    WannaBe: Guess it's just not Tigers's night, tonight. But the game is not yet over. Sep-26-14    Phony Benoni: After 2009, I'm not looking forward to the prospect of another game 163. At least it won't be all-or-nothing this time. I may just spend the weekend in the bomb shelter without any communications. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 617 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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