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 627 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-25-14    OhioChessFan: <Laurence Leavy's orange Marlins jersey made him easy to spot amid a sea of Kansas City Royals blue. He said a Royals official approached him offering to move him to the team owner's suite, but Leavy declined.> http://www.aol.com/article/2014/10/... Oct-25-14    perfidious: <PB> All those runs scored and no home runs, with those hitters in each lineup. Was a bit surprised Preacher Roe relieved in that game, but I recall him discussing the way the '48 season went in <Boys of Summer>. Leo Durocher had decided to keep two left-handers and Joe Hatten was one of them, so it came down to Dwain Sloat and Roe for the other spot. Roe pitched consecutive shutouts to nail down his berth--as he noted in <Boys>, his only two shutouts of the year. Another note of interest: Dodgers' starting catcher was Bruce Edwards, who was mentioned by Gil Hodges as being okay till he gained weight. Then along came Campanella. Oct-25-14    Jim Bartle: I noticed Musial got his fifth triple in that game, in the middle of May. Then I saw he had between 14 and 20 a year for six straight years. Sort of supports the image of him as a hustling player. Oct-25-14    WannaBe: <OhioChessFan> I don't know where he moved to after the 7th inning stretch, because the guy who sang "God Bless America" was in his seat by the time TV started Bottom of 7th. I'd like to think he gave up his seat to the Petty Officer who did the singing. See if Leavy is at the Stadium tonight. Oct-25-14    Phony Benoni: How To Break Up a Double Play, by Albert Belle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV3f... Well, he didn't go out of the baseline. Oct-26-14    Phony Benoni: This year, whenever the Lions win an angel gets its wings. Let me recap what had to happen for the Lions to pull out their game today. At the two minute warning, the Falcons have a two-point lead and a first down at midfield, and the Lions had only one time-out left. The rest is a matter of technique. First down run goes nowhere. Lions use their last time-out. Second down run goes nowhere. Atlanta is penalized for holding. Lions decline the penalty, but the clock still stops. Receiver drops third down pass. Atlanta punts, Lions get the ball back at the 10-yard-line with 90 seconds remaining and no time-outs. Atlanta goes prevent. Usual results. With four seconds left, Stafford spikes the ball in field goal range. Matt Prater trots out for a 43-yard field goal. Wide Right! Wait--there's a penalty. It's on the Lions? For Delay of Game? Who the bleep takes a Delay of Game penality on a field goal attempt? But since it's a pre-snap penalty, the play never happened. Since the ball was dead, there's no 10-second runoff. Matt Prater lines up from 48 yards away. Right down Picadilly, and the Lions wins 22-21. When Jim Caldwell became the coach, he said the Lions needed to avoid stupid penalties in critical situations. He may want to reconsider that strategy. You gotta go with your natural style. Oct-26-14    WannaBe: Wednesday, filling out the weekend football pool. Take the Lions I said to meself, they are better than Falcons. Them boids are in tatters. Don't matta the game is in London. Tuned in at halftime. Oy vey. Go do chores, tuned in just now and saw the final. Oy vey!! Oct-26-14    WannaBe: Minnesota at Tampa Bay, must be playing baseball, 0-0 end of 2nd inning. Oct-26-14    Jim Bartle: Come on, these are board game stats: Roethlisberger, 40/49, 500 yards, 6 TDs. Oct-26-14    WannaBe: <JB> These days, they are called Xbox stats. Oct-26-14    Phony Benoni: In the Big Ten, that used to be known as a good season. Oct-26-14    Jim Bartle: Luck had a meager 400. I wonder if there's ever been 900 passing yards in a game before. Oct-26-14    WannaBe: Celebrate a sack while your team is being blown out, Football Gods will punish you. http://espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/stor... Oct-26-14    Jim Bartle: I saw that. A sack dance when you've already given up 50 points. Oct-26-14    OhioChessFan: Unbelievable end to the Lions-Falcons. Stupid move to hold but why were they running any kind of play? A couple kneel downs, punt, Lions would have at most 20 seconds to get a FG. And to call a PASS to cost another 45 seconds was criminal. Oct-26-14    Phony Benoni: That sort of clock mismanagement is the sort of thing that can cost a coach his job--and the Falcons have a bye week coming up. The Lions had so much time that they actually ran a kneel-down with no time outs left just to run out the clock. Oct-27-14    Jim Bartle: I'm getting tired of baseball cliches, particularly when they're based on results. Bad defense: "Put the ball in play, you never know what will happen." Good defense: "You've got a great defense behind you, let it work for you." And I'm also tired of hearing how these games are won and lost by the managers. Oct-27-14    WannaBe: Probably everything and anything you want to know about the post-season bonus (share) money, great article, full of tidbits. I liked the one about Yankee's batboys the most. http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/1... Oct-27-14    keypusher: <Jim Bartle: Luck had a meager 400. I wonder if there's ever been 900 passing yards in a game before.> Here's one that is seared, seared in my memory, as John Kerry would say. Don't know if there are others. http://www.pro-football-reference.c... Of course, 1) it was an OT game 2) if you subtract sacks, it's just short of 900. Oct-27-14    keypusher: <Atlanta goes prevent. Usual results. With four seconds left, Stafford spikes the ball in field goal range.> This doesn't excuse the Falcons, but I hate that the intentional spike is allowed. Basically it means you have as many time outs as you have downs to give away. I don't see why it isn't penalized as intentional grounding. Oct-27-14    OhioChessFan: I'm not a big fan of the spike either. One fairly minor aspect of it is that I know it happened once, and is sure to again, where a team will animatedly signal for a spike, the QB will go through the motion, then hold on to the ball and pass downfield. To me, that smacks of a QB faking a slide to stop the defenders from hitting him, then continuing on. In general, I think the old way of simply lining up and zipping a ball out of bounds somewhere remotely close to a wide receiver lined up wide was good enough and I don't understand why they changed it. Oct-27-14    WannaBe: Googled around, up, and down, but I can't find what year the "Spike" became legal. Oct-27-14    Jim Bartle: I remember one time the quarterback was rushing and signalling spike at the one yard line, and took the snap and dove into the endzone. Risky, because if he hadn't made it it meant time would run out. Can't remember whether it was a pro game or a Bowl game, but it was a big one. Oct-27-14    Phony Benoni: Dan Marino was the first to use the "fake spike", so it cant be that recent an innovation. I don't have a problem with the spike per se. It's just another chance for a team who is behind late to catch up. No worse than a two point conversion. And why go through the farce of thowing one out of bounds? The intent is the same. The fake spike, though a lot of fun, may be unfair. Perhaps a "spike" should be signaled like a fair catch, and no other offensive action be permitted. Oct-28-14    keypusher: <I don't have a problem with the spike per se. It's just another chance for a team who is behind late to catch up. No worse than a two point conversion. And why go through the farce of thowing one out of bounds?> Because a cornerback might jump one of those passes and get a pick-six. And if the QB avoids that possibility by throwing it 20 rows into the stands, then flag him for intentional grounding. 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