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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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May-17-16		WannaBe: David Schoenfield's Top 10 basebrawl of all time: http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/p...

May-17-16		Jim Bartle: I saw a good one in 1964: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... More for what happened afterward, though. Frank Robinson was hit by a pitch in the first and charged the mound, clearing the benches and leading to a few punches. I don't know why he got so upset. It was Ron Herbel who hit him, so it couldn't have hurt. Anyway, he comes up again in the third. Booooooo!!! Long, very long home run to left. Booooooo!! Comes up again in the 4th. Takes a massive cut, trying to put one in the bay. Struck out. Yaaayyyyyyy!!! Leads off the 5th. Boooooooo! Longer home run than the first one. Came up in the 8th. Now real serious booing. Won't stop. Three massive cuts. Strike out. Yaaaayyy!!! Reds win 7-1. What a great day. A few years ago when the subject of brawls came up, Robinson said he never charged the mound when he was hit. Now he had a poor memory, or was fibbing. The vitriol toward Robinson was real, even though he was from Oakland. So was centerfielder Vada Pinson, same high school, but people didn't hate him. Of course he became beloved to Giants fans when he was the manager, even when he clearly screwed up.

May-17-16		keypusher: Just reading up on doubles and triples on this page and thinking you could put together a good baseball book from the posts on this forum. <Amazing that Biggio ranks so high. At first I wondered why Musial managed to hit one more than Cobb, but probably Cobb got a lot of triples that would have been doubles for most players. (Or singles for David Ortiz.)> Cobb had nearly 300 triples, so I'm sure there's something to that. But he hit an awful lot of singles. I once looked at percentages of extra base hits for a few old-time players. Nearly half of Ruth's hits were for extra bases, while only 14% of Wee Willie Keeler's were. Cobb was about 24%. Of course it's unfair to compare him to Ruth, but even Tris Speaker was close to 30%. He had nearly 700 fewer hits than Cobb but more or less equal numbers of extra-base hits. Speaker had a big edge in doubles and Cobb had a big edge in triples.

May-17-16		Jim Bartle: The switch to the lively ball around 1920 makes those comparisons difficult.

May-17-16		WannaBe: Still early, two games to look for, games at Milwaukee and StL.

May-17-16		WannaBe: Nevermind the game in StL. The game at Milwaukee is getting interesting... Need 9 more outs.

May-17-16		WannaBe: Nevermind that game in Milwaukee either.

May-17-16		Phony Benoni: Some hitters use the Open Stance. Some hitters use the Closed Stance. And then there's the Introverted Stance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckw...

May-17-16		Jim Bartle: The wide stance of Jeff Bagwell: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HdweXiH4J...

May-18-16		chancho: Maybe Jeff was taking an imaginary dump (on the Red Sox) with that stance.

May-18-16		WannaBe: What is up with them Phillies?! Break them up!! ChiCubs' are now on another two game losing streak, winning percentage drops to .730 from .800, on pace now to win <ONLY> 118 games. Wait 'til next year.

May-18-16		WannaBe: Useless Information Depart: https://twitter.com/BBTN/status/732... That's Kershaw, some Angels guy, some Boston guy, some DBacks guy, some ChiSox guy... Kershaw's next start will be at home Monday, May 23rd v. Cincinnati Reds. Then May 30 at ChiCubs, if the current rotation holds. The 'Odd' guys?! That Angels guy and that ChiSox guy. What's so odd, you ask? Well, that's my trivia question to y'all baseball experts!

May-18-16		WannaBe: Ex-stadium announcer sues 49ers for age discrimination. http://www.tmz.com/2016/05/18/bob-s... Apparently that 49ers means your (maximum) age!

May-18-16		Jim Bartle: Oh man. Vin Scully must be calling his lawyer.

May-18-16		Jim Bartle: Stumbled on this, fun to listen to while doing something else. Giants vs. St. Louis in 1962. Marichal vs. Gibson. McCovey in rightfield and Felipe Alou in left, which seems odd. Announcers Harry Caray and Jack Buck. Caray's pronunciation of the names of some Giants players is pretty funny. Includes the commercials, including for cigarettes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ss...

May-18-16		WannaBe: <Jim Bartle: ...Giants vs. St. Louis in 1962. Marichal vs. Gibson. McCovey in rightfield and Felipe Alou in left, which seems odd. > Correct, makes you wonder where the Center Fielder is. Two men outfield, that is odd. Maybe the manager forgot to play the 9th men.

May-18-16		Jim Bartle: Actually the centerfielder lost a ball in the twilight and it fell for a triple. So it's as if they didn't have one on that play. Harry Caray sayd "MYU-ci-al." Sounds weird. Six Hall of Famers in the game.

May-18-16		playground player: Given Ty Cobb's career stolen base totals, 892 of them, a lot of his singles might as well have been doubles.

May-18-16		WannaBe: We have the second TP of the season, this is a "run of the mill" 5-4-3 http://espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gam...

May-19-16		WannaBe: Well, this is good. Fredi Gonzalez found out he's fired because he got a plane ticket home. While the team stayed in Pittsburgh to finish out the series. So, you're fired via the Traveling Booking Secretary?? http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-f...

May-19-16		WannaBe: Trivia Question Time!! <Justin Verlander, Don Newcombe. What they have in common>. Okay, here's the answer to the trivia question that I "indirectly" proposed about Kershaw, that Angels guy, that DBacks guy, that ChiSox guy, and that Boston guy. The answer is, that Angels guy and that ChiSox guy have no Cy Young Award!! But that ChiSox guy is still active. How on early did that Angels/Texas/Houston guy never won a Cy Young?

May-19-16		Jim Bartle: Because Ryan was never the best pitcher. Marichal never won either, and never deserved to, despite years of 25, 26, 24 wins.

May-19-16		Phony Benoni: Newcombe and Verlander are both Cy Young winners who have yet to win a World Series game -- including the year they won the award -- but there must be more of those.

May-19-16		WannaBe: <PB> y're warm....

May-21-16		WannaBe: Okay, time for answer!! <Until 2011 when Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander accomplished the feat, Newcombe was the only baseball player to have won the Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player and Cy Young awards in his career. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_N...

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