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 675 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> May-26-15    Jim Bartle: <The Elias Sports Bureau notes that Harden's 45 are the third-most points scored in Game 4 by a player whose team trailed 3-0 in a best-of-seven series (in other words, to avoid a four-game sweep).> Aaargh!! May-26-15    Phony Benoni: So what's the record for a best-of-five series? May-26-15    WannaBe: <Phony Benoni: So what's the record for a best-of-five series?> I think it's 78, on a golf course. May-26-15    WannaBe: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/10-deg... Spin Rate? May-26-15    WannaBe: Some fascinating info on that J. Guthrie 11 run game, and also fascinating historical perspective. http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/p... May-26-15    WannaBe: You gotta love Social Media and how to "One Up" the other guys: <With a Warriors win tomorrow night, the NBA will be guaranteed its 9th different team champion in the last 30 years.> From Darren Rovell, Twitter feed on ESPN. Yawn... May-27-15    Phony Benoni: Miguel Cabrera can't afford to retire just yet. The acting skills simply aren't there: http://detroitsportsnation.com/vide... May-27-15    Jim Bartle: That is funny! May-27-15    playground player: Gene Michael, tall Yankee shortstop who couldn't hit, successfully worked the hidden ball trick five times. Not counting the time he tried to hide a baseball down Carlton Fisk's throat. May-27-15    WannaBe: Ray McD. just got arrested, again. About 90 minutes ago. http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1... May-28-15    WannaBe: Here's that Jon Lester record that <Jim Bartle> was asking a week or so back: http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/p... May-28-15    Jim Bartle: With the exception of the catcher, all the worst hitters played since 1960. I find that highly unlikely. Plus, what about Dal Maxvill, Buddy Biancalana, and Ray Oyler? May-28-15    Phony Benoni: The inclusion of Bill Bergen, the turn-of-the century catcher, is a giveaway that these are simply guys he is familiar with. Bergen's received a lot press about this legitimately bad hitting; otherwise, he wouldn't be on the list. He also made a point of including guys with "real" careers". But picking Vince Coleman as the left fielder just because he didn't have power? If you can steal 100 bases a year, you can't be a bad hitter. We criticize a lot of writers of over-statting things, but he needs a lot more numbers to take this seriously. May-28-15    Jim Bartle: If you steal 100 bases, that's 100 singles which become doubles, at least as far as getting in scoring position is concerned. May-28-15    WannaBe: It' time for Final Jeopardy!!! Answer: Max Flack and Cliff Heathcote. May-28-15    Phony Benoni: I guess Oyler gets ruled out because of his short career; basically only two years as a part-time regular. As long as you were ahead, he stayed in the game. There needs to be some real criteria to decide this. I looked around for some other lists, and found one guy who started off with Eddie Joost -- a .235 lifetime hitter, but he once walked 149 times in a single season. Why, he was practically Bryce Harper! Another had at #1 a early-20th century shortstop named George McBride, who amassed a lifetime agerage of .218 over 16 years and 1600+ games. Good, but Dal Maxvill hit .217 over 14 years and 1400 games. No significant difference in career there. Much scope for research and argument here. For instance, was Dave Kingman a good hitter or a bad hitter? Here's a situation for you: Bottom of the ninth, two outs, bases loaded, tie game. You have to choose a pinch-hitter, and your choices are Dave Kingman or Eddie Joost. Who do you pick? May-28-15    Jim Bartle: Joost, of course. OBP is all that counts. In a Series game a few years ago in a similar situation Philadelphia sent up low average bulky power hitter Matt Stairs to pinch hit. I didn't see the sense in it. May-29-15    OhioChessFan: Who are 2 people who were never in <Wannabe's> kitchen? May-29-15    OhioChessFan: I had to cheat and google it. Never heard of them, but that's a pretty interesting bit of trivia. May-29-15    playground player: <Phony Benoni> Eddie Joost, of course! Bases loaded, you need only one run, and in that situation a walk is literally as good as a hit--and Eddie's got 150 of them. So he is much, much more likely than Dave Kingman to drive in the winning run. But if you were down two or three runs, then sending up Eddie would just be kicking the can down the road (unless Eddie Yost is up next): that's when you need Dave to swing the bat. He'll probably strike out, but he might hit a home run. And what do you get when you add up Eddie Joost, Dave Kingman, and George Brett? Ted Williams. May-29-15    WannaBe: <OhioChessFan> A.K.A. Cliff, nice try! =)) May-29-15    WannaBe: <OhioChessFan> The reason I thought of them, was because at the watering hole last night, someone was talking about Uribe being traded in the middle of ATL-LAD series. Of course, Uribe was traded from LAD to ATL. Then ATL played at SFG Thursday night, which Uribe also played with. That's what started the whole thing. =) May-29-15    Phony Benoni: Drat; I missed the Flack-Heathcote answer -- I knew that one! Phony Benoni chessforum (kibitz #10079) What did I almost win? May-29-15    WannaBe: <Phony Benoni> You won a day's supply of Rice-O-Roni, the San Francisco Treat. May-29-15    WannaBe: File this under "For the Love of God, Don't Celebrate!" http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/pos... Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 675 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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