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 84 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Aug-22-09    Travis Bickle: Here's Mantle talking about a tape measure shot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeS1... Aug-22-09    Phony Benoni: <JB>: http://www.andrewclem.com/Baseball/... Click on the stadium's name for further details. This looks like a fantastic site. Aug-22-09    Phony Benoni: <Travis Bickle> That wasn't a tape measure shot. It was more of a GPS home run. Aug-22-09    Jim Bartle: Thanks for that. I can see why if Mantle didn't hit too many homers to left. And why Joe DiMaggio hit "only" 360 home runs. Two nights ago I saw Ryan Howard hit a real monster shot to straightaway center, easily a hundred feet beyond the fence. Aug-22-09    Phony Benoni: It's amazing that DiMaggio could lead the league in homers twice. I just checked, and only three right-handed Yankee hitters have done that. Alex Rodriguez is one, of course, but you'll never get the third without looking. Aug-22-09    Jim Bartle: Not a clue. Aug-22-09    Phony Benoni: Bob Meusel with 33 in 1925, the year Ruth was felled by an intestinal abscess and the Yankees fell to 7th place. Aug-22-09    Jim Bartle: Yanks came in 7th? Did not know that. I figured it was somebody like Blomberg or someone like that in that period between Mantle and Reggie. Aug-22-09    Phony Benoni: Oh, by the way, found ryan Howard's home run: http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.co... I think he guessed it was going out. Aug-23-09    playground player: <Phony Benoni> Actually, I happened to know it was Bob Meusel that one year, so I didn't have to guess. I don't know what the dimensions of Yankee Stadium were in DiMaggio's day, but I remember "Death Valley" in left center as pretty hopeless for a RH hitter. Even Harmon Killebrew had a hard time with it. If you remember him, you can imagine how hard it was for him to get a triple. But he hit triples in Yankee Stadium. That's how far a ball could go there, and still not be a home run. Aug-23-09    Phony Benoni: <playground player> Have a look for yourself: http://www.andrewclem.com/Baseball/... Checked on Killebrew. 24 triples lifetime, Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park leading the road parks with four each. Only seven of his triples were hit at home. Aug-23-09    Jim Bartle: In an attempt to do something to inject a little power into their lineup, the Giants have signed up the entire Chula Vista Little League team. Aug-23-09    Phony Benoni: Darn. Wish the Tigers had thought of that. See what happens when you don't think small? Speaking of power woes, how about the Mets? Only 72 HRs so far (to the Giants' 86) and only one player in double figures (Gary Sheffield, at 10). Aug-23-09    A.G. Argent: Poor little Mets. That's a bit incredible, actually. Moving into late August and they got one guy with HR's in double figures and that's only just 10?!? I realize they've had a conga line to and from the DL but I still have no pity. Aug-23-09    A.G. Argent: Speaking of the Mets, they got punked bad today with an unassisted triple play by the Phils and Eric Bruntlett to end the game. Only the second time in MLB history to end a game with one. Aug-23-09    Jim Bartle: Interesting that as New York opens two expensive new stadiums this year, Yankee Stadium is a hitters paradise with cheap homers flying out to right, and Citi Field a pitchers park. Aug-23-09    Jim Bartle: Just saw the triple play. I'd stopped watching that game half an hour earlier. Damn. Aug-23-09    Phony Benoni: Here's an abridged version of Retrosheet's account of the other game-ending unassisted triple play: === 5/31/1927 Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Indians Navin Field Top 9 INNING Score 0 - 1 2 Men On: First Charlie Jamieson Second Glenn Myatt Homer Summa (CLE) is the batter with a ?-? count. He hits a hard liner right at the 1B, Johnny Neun (OUT 1) 1B then ran the base paths toward second and tagged the runner from first, Charlie Jamieson (OUT 2) 1B continued to second base, landing there before the runner from second, Glenn Myatt, could return (OUT 3) NOTE: UNASSISTED TRIPLE PLAY - SIXTH REGULAR SEASON UTP - END OF GAME - SECOND UTP IN 2 DAYS === I read Neun's account of it. Seems there had been another unassisted triple play the day before. He was talking about it with his teammates before the game, and they decided it wouldn't happen again for years. Aug-24-09    Travis Bickle: Here's an interesting topic. Who would you rather have as a leadoff man Ty Cobb, Pete Rose, or Ricky Henderson? Aug-24-09    Phony Benoni: Rose is definitely #3 on that list; no speed. Cobb was a #3 hitter in his time, when nobody had a lot of power. Today, he would probably hit lead-off, something like Ichiro Suzuki. Given that, I'd take him over Henderson. I think the real question might be: Ichiro or Henderson as a lead-off hitter? Aug-24-09    Travis Bickle: Then I'd have to go with Henderson. I think he has the most leadoff homeruns the most stolen bases around 1400 I think and he could make contact. Pete Rose though was a tough gamer like Cobb. Aug-25-09    Jim Bartle: Wow, didn't know Miguel Cabrera had such serious power. Just took a good low outside pitch and hit it waaay over the centerfield fence. Aug-26-09    Phony Benoni: Cabrera has been red hot lately, and hitting in the clutch as well. He won't win the Triple Crown, but he's building up Yaz-67 types of credentials for MVP. Aug-26-09    LIFE Master AJ: Hiya. I played in a couple of those U.S. Opens. I usually managed to make it there, even if it was just to "sight-see." (I think I missed a few while I was in the service. However, from 1975, to aabout 1983, I played in several and "just hung out" at several more.) Aug-26-09    LIFE Master AJ: <<By the way, the fact I have had adjourned games shows you I've been around too long.>> Oops. I once had an adjourned game ... it went on almost the whole weekend. (Friday night until Sunday evening, played until it was finished.) I also had a twice-adjourned game one year in Fort Walton Beach. (FL) I have dim memories of trying to play chess at three or four in the morning. (The TD, Paul Kidder, actually lied down and fell asleep on a table.) Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 84 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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