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 799 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jun-28-16    Jim Bartle: Record is 18 total bases in a game, by Josh Hamilton. Bryant had 16. One of the doubles was a liner which could have been caught by the shortstop if he'd been positioned differently. But it was hit so hard that it almost reached the wall. Jun-28-16    Party Animal: <Jim Bartle: Record is 18 total bases in a game, by Josh Hamilton. Bryant had 16.> Thanks for the info Jimbo, but let's give credit where credit is due. Kris Bryant did something that Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Ted Williams, Stan Musial & a Juiced up on 'Roids Barry Bonds didn't accomplish. You can't sweep that under the rug with some cheap stats. Jun-28-16    Jim Bartle: That's a misinterpretation. I'm saying it's the second greatest EVER in a single game. What's wrong with that? When somebody has a huge game, it's natural to look at what the record is. And Bryant came damn close. By the way, this may cause a change in the way everyone pitches Bryant. All three homers were in fastballs up. He won't see many of those from now on, so Bryant can focus more on breaking pitches and pitches low. Jun-28-16    Jim Bartle: Oops, read the record wrong. That's the AL record. Shawn Green had 19 for the Dodgers, and Joe Adcock 18 for Milwaukee. Bryant's day gives an OPS of 4.200. Jun-28-16    Party Animal: Hey Phony, Jimbo & all baseball fans check out this story & video about many vintage baseball cards found in Boston. http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidse... Here's the youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmC... Jun-28-16    Jim Bartle: Oh man. Like millions of kids from the 50s and 60s I wish I had held onto my baseball cards. I would be rich. But if all the kids had kept their cards, they wouldn't be valuable, would they? Jun-28-16    Party Animal: <Jim Bartle> I had a collection of cereal baseball cards you cut off the boxes. My older cousin told me back then, "those cards aren't any good only the bubblegum cards". Well like most kids I threw away my useless cereal cards & years later there was a strong market for them. : ( Jun-28-16    Jim Bartle: Coastal Carolina is known as the Chanticleers? Jun-29-16    WannaBe: WannaBe: <JB> Yep. Correct. Now, which "Power" conference are they from? Jun-29-16    WannaBe: Heheheh... Left the OAK/SF game after seventh inning stretch (caught a ride with a friend) and got dropped off at San Mateo where my car was parked. Got home in time to catch the top of the 9th, right now 13-9 Oakland, so glad there's no DH in NL ball parks, otherwise this would be 21-15 game. =)) Both bullpens have given up more runs than starters for each team did. Total of 12 relievers used in this game, so far. Jun-29-16    Jim Bartle: <Left the OAK/SF game after seventh inning stretch (caught a ride with a friend)> Not a real fan. I bet you would have left that Yankee game in the ninth when it was suspended, not even waited through the three hour rain delay to watch it finish at 3 AM. Jun-29-16    Jim Bartle: The 3-4 hitters in the A's/Giants game went 3 for 22, yet there were 24 runs scored. Jun-29-16    WannaBe: <JB> Believe me, if it weren't for the free ride home (or else I wait for CalTrain with all the other fans), I would have stayed and see the pitching duel. Since Giants made it interesting with a coupe of HRs in the 9th. And the pitcher that got the save allowed 3 runs. Go fig. Jun-29-16    Jim Bartle: I went to an A's night game years ago, can't remember against whom, and it went into extra innings and it was approaching one in the morning. We'd come on BART, which shut down at one. So we listened to the radio on the way home. I took CalTrain home after the Giants' game five win in the 2002 World Series. Everybody celebrating. Little did we know. Jun-29-16    WannaBe: <keypusher> was asking about number of HRs hit per year few weeks ago. So this is for him: http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/p... Jun-29-16    WannaBe: Don't they do this in Little League?? http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/1... Jun-29-16    Jim Bartle: I umpired Pony League and once a pitcher was removed he could not pitch again, even if he stayed in the game. I had to show the rule to coaches so often that I started warning them about the rule before games. Jun-29-16    Penguincw: < Jim Bartle: ... I bet you would have left that Yankee game in the ninth when it was suspended, not even waited through the three hour rain delay to watch it finish at 3 AM. > Not the only game to finish that late last night. In fact, it looked like a bunch of games finished late (all times listed in eastern time). The OAK-SF game ended 2:09 am. The CHC-CIN game 11:53 pm. The TEX-NYY game 9:45 pm (plus however long the delay was). And of course, the TOR-COL game last night ended at around 3:21 am. Check out the weather conditions though (nice job by the ground crew to clean everything up): http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2016/06/29... The last time a Jays game lasted this deep into the night was probably TOR-SD, which lasted 17 innings (and ended around 3 in the morning). The game started on May 2013, and ended the next month. Jun-29-16    WannaBe: Okay, that 'trivia' answer, Coastal Carolina is from the Big South Conference. Game should start in about 15 minutes, winner take all. (The bases, home plate, pitching rubber, foul poles...) Jun-29-16    Jim Bartle: Ping!! Jun-29-16    Jim Bartle: Rain.... At least the Miami Hurricanes are not playing. Jun-29-16    Phony Benoni: Two moe hits for Ichiro today, twelve more needed to reach 3000. He may be batting .342, but he is certainly slapp9ng his way to the goal, as his 53 hits this year include 47 singles and six doubles. His on-base percentage is thirty points higher than his slugging average, but that's not so remarkable. Ron Herbel did it over the course of his career. Jun-29-16    Jim Bartle: <Two moe hits for Ichiro today, twelve more needed to reach 3000. > I thought Drabowsky retired years ago. One of I assume quite a few pitchers with an 0.00 ERA in a World Series. Of course it came against the 1966 Dodgers, so rates an asterisk. Jun-30-16    WannaBe: MadBum will be his own DH tonight. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/madiso... Jun-30-16    Jim Bartle: But what's the rule? If he leaves the game as a pitcher, can he remain as DH? If Boche wants to pinch-hit for him in the DH spot, can he continue pitching? If he is replaced as DH, can the new DH bat more than once, or is he in effect pinch-hitting? The DH is a joke. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 799 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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