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 81 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Aug-12-09    Phony Benoni: There aren't many teams that wouldn't want Kevin Youkilis on their side, for intangibles as well as skill. How can you not hustle when he's glaring at you? Aug-12-09    Jim Bartle: Here's Carlos Pena of Arizona, hitting .213. And scoring 71 runs and driving in 74, with 31 homers. Good example that batting average isn't everything. Aug-12-09    Phony Benoni: He's also on a pace for 200 strikeouts. At what point does he become Rob Deer? Aug-12-09    Jim Bartle: But it seems to me he's much more productive than Rob Deer ever was. (And Deer came up as a Giant, a major prospect.) Aug-12-09    A.G. Argent: Or Dave Kingman. Aug-13-09    Travis Bickle: Ty Cobb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzkE... Aug-13-09    playground player: <Phony Benoni, Jim Bartle> Rob Deer! Wow! I haven't thought about him in donkey's years. I remember a reporter asking Sparky Anderson about maybe getting Deer a personal hitting coach, and Sparky saying "I dunno, you could send him to Joe Gorilla for lessons and it wouldn't do any good." I think Sparky might'a been losin' it, at that point. True, batting average isn't everything, and you can hit .200 and still drive in 100 runs, as Kingman once did (but only once). But if you're striking out all the time, your teammates sure as heck don't get a chance to drive YOU in. Aug-13-09    Jim Bartle: But getting back to Peña, he's already scored 70 runs, which is very good. Plus he's walked so much that his on-base percentage is around .350. It's all very confusing. He puts the ball in play less than half the time! Aug-13-09    Phony Benoni: I wonder if Pena gets a lot of walks because Tampa Bay has nobody dangerous hitting behind him. Maybe the ultimate in this category was Mark McGwire in his last year, 2001. He batted .187, and got 56 hits the entire year: 23 singles, 4 doubles, no triples, 29 home runs. Aug-14-09    Phony Benoni: <News item: Michael Vick signs a contract wit the Eagles.> Hmmm. I wonder if Philadelphia plays at Cleveland this year. Aug-14-09    Jim Bartle: What's he going to do? Play wide receiver? Running back? Aug-14-09    Phony Benoni: Maybe fetch errant balls during practice. I was just imagining what would happen when he was greeted by Browns fans in "The Dog Pound". Aug-14-09    Jim Bartle: Oops, I missed that. I suspect he's going to get a hard time everywhere on the road this year. Deservedly so. Aug-14-09    A.G. Argent: <Deservedly so> Hear, hear. And even Eagle Fan ain't going to be very patient with the punk. Aug-14-09    Phony Benoni: Are Eagles Fans patient with anybody? I haven't been following the story closely, but has Vick said or done anything since his release to indicate that he hasn't learned his lesson? I suppose it's possible for even him to reform--though it looks like this is going to stick with him the rest of his life, regardless. Aug-14-09    Jim Bartle: I was hoping he'd be on the same team with Terrell Owens... Aug-14-09    Phony Benoni: That would probably be the only way the media spotlight wouldn't be on him. Aug-14-09    Travis Bickle: It makes me sick a team even picked up Vick. After getting involved in the vicious "sport" of dog fighting he has shown what he's all about. Besides the obvious of pure evil he has no moral's and is cold blooded. The illegal dogfighting is all about abuse to animals. From training big ferocious dogs like pit bull's and rotweiller's who can kill people, they use on little dogs like beagles for these big dogs to learn how to kill. Besides what I mentioned above Vick and his cohorts comitted atrocity's on the dogs that were injured or couldnt fight anymore. Some dogs were slammed on concrete until dead and others were drowned! Vick should be banned for life from The NFL. But big money wins all the time and it doesnt surprise me he got re-instated. Aug-15-09    chancho: Vick did not look repentant about his involvement in Dog fighting. He was coached to say what he said at the press conference. Aug-15-09    playground player: Hi, everybody. It's me, Michael Vick. Look here, I'm sincerely sorry I got caught and had to go to jail. Heck, everybody tortures animals to death, don't they? I mean, it was just a little fun. Anyways, I have paid my debt to society and now I deserve to make bajillions of dollars playing football. So why don't you all shut up about me being a bad person or whatever? <Sounds of tussle offstage: roaring and screaming.> Don't you wish Mr. Vick would get a chance to abuse great white sharks, or dinosaurs--in their natural habitat, not his? Aug-15-09    Jim Bartle: Er, welcome to the site, Michael? Sure you've got the right sport? Aug-15-09    Phony Benoni: Speaking of the right sport, where have the Yankees come from? They're four games ahead of the Dodgers for best record in MLB. Right now it's hard to see who can stand up to them in the post-season, especially if they get home field advantage. Tigers are still doddering along in first place in the Central. They've pitched two shutouts in a row, and will have to be nearly that good to stay on top of the division, even by default. Their offensive output in those two games has resulted from two solo home runs and an infield single. Aug-15-09    technical draw: Hello, my name is technical draw and I am a Yankees fan. Aug-15-09    Jim Bartle: The Yankees have their third-best record at this point since 1970. Very surprising. Watched the Giants for the first time last night, against the Mets. Absolutely no power, no hitting in general. Zito pitches great, doesn't matter. Aug-15-09    A.G. Argent: T-Draw, that don't make you a bad person. 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