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 663 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-12-15    Stevie King: Last night in Baltimore's 7-1 trouncing of Toronto, with Baltimore ahead 2 runs in the bottom of the 3rd they had the bases loaded, 0 out, with Adam Jones at the plate. He nonchalantly hit into a double play and brought it in a run. I says to myself, I says, that's how you do it. Apr-12-15    WannaBe: Potential No-No, Seattle at Oakland, King Felix versus someone named Hahn... Bottom 5th Apr-12-15    WannaBe: Yep, I'm good, there goes the No-No, as soon as the next half inning started... Now, only if my magic can work on this Valifornia drought problem. Apr-13-15    Stevie King: Bottom 5th too early to make the no-no call, Wannabe...7th min. Apr-14-15    Phony Benoni: <Stevie King> Oh, <WannaBe> gets excited every time he sees a "0" on the score board. It reminds him of Raiders football. But we still appreciate the early notice. It's so hard to keep track of everything these days. Apr-14-15    WannaBe: The reason I posted that no-no notice, was because <Hahn> was the one throwing it!! Not Felix. =)) Apr-15-15    playground player: <Esteemed Baseball Mavens> A trivia question for you--see if you know it without looking it up. Prior to the steroids kicking in (so throw out Bonds and Sosa and those other guys), only 9 players managed to hit 50 or more home runs in a season. Can you name them? And which of them (how many) managed to do it more than once? (*!*) Apr-15-15    Phony Benoni: OK, Ruth (4), Foxx (2), Greenberg, Mays (2), Kiner, Foster, Hack Wilson, Mantle (2), Maris. Kiner may have had two as well. However, we need to put asterisks by at least Ruth and Wilson, since they both used Illegal Substances (that was the Prohibition Era, you know.) And George Foster had to be on Gatorade or something. Apr-15-15    Phony Benoni: Wait a minute. Didn't Mize hit 51 the same year Kiner did? Now, I have to look this up. Apr-15-15    playground player: <Phony Benoni> Sapristi! I forgot Hack Wilson, who did it in 1930--so that makes ten players, not nine. Ralph Kiner did it twice--second only to Babe Ruth in home runs per 100 at bats, lifetime. Apr-15-15    playground player: <Phony Benoni> Johnny Mize did it with the Giants in 1947, the year the Giants hit over 200 homers and didn't win the pennant. Apr-15-15    WannaBe: Now batting, number 42, pitching, number 42, catching, number 42, playing first base, number 42, second, number 42, third base, number 42... Apr-15-15    Jim Bartle: <Ralph Kiner did it twice--second only to Babe Ruth in home runs per 100 at bats, lifetime.> That's impressive but also deceptive, because Kiner retired while still close to his prime. He didn't have the less productive years at the end of his career. I remember McCovey was second in HR pct. around 1970, around 1 in 13, but of course that faded. Apr-15-15    Jim Bartle: I have a Morphy/Bacon number of 2 with Kiner. A good friend of mine (mother of a classmate) played on the amateur tennis circuit after WWII, and was a good friend of fellow player Nancy Chaffee. They remained friends after Chaffee married Kiner. Apr-15-15    Phony Benoni: <JB> Isn't that a "3"? A person who knows Kiner is "1"; a person who knows a "1" is a "2". You know a "2', so that makes you a "3". Apr-15-15    Jim Bartle: If I know Kiner that's a one. If I know someone who knew Kiner that's a two, right? Apr-15-15    Phony Benoni: True. I had the impression that your friend knew Kiner's wife, but not Kiner. Apr-15-15    Jim Bartle: No, they were close friends for many years. Apr-16-15    playground player: Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon... an actor's claim to fame. Apr-16-15    Jim Bartle: It started because someone misheard "Six Degrees of Separation." Apr-16-15    Phony Benoni: One of my high school teachers was the brother of actor Tom Skeritt, who apparently has a Bacon number o two. So I guess that kind of makes me a "4", the same as my Morphy number. Apr-16-15    WannaBe: My Bacon number is 3, and I was in a bit role with someone who have 2. =) Apr-16-15    Phony Benoni: Oh, probably everybody in California is a 3 or lower, whether they know it or not. Apr-16-15    WannaBe: Google.com have this 'feature', type in the name of the thespian, then "Bacon Number" and voila, it will tell you the number, plus the connection. So, out of curiosity, I did Charlie Chaplin... Anyone care to venture a guess before I post the number + connection? =) What about Buster Keaton or Rudolph Valentino?? Apr-16-15    Phony Benoni: I'd guess that Chaplin and Keaton are surely "2s", but both appear to have died before Bacon became active. It wouldn't shock me if Valentino was a 2, either. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 663 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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