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 93 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-12-09    johnlspouge: Hi, <Phony Benoni>. You are a real gentleman. I did not realize that you had already knew about the DIRP game I found. Here, I thought there was an entire universe of DIRPs waiting to be found, but maybe life's possibilities are more bounded than I thought. Nahh, couldn't be.... Sep-12-09    Phony Benoni: <johnlspouge> Thank you for the tribute, but I am less of a gentleman than an opportunist. I added the game to the collection as soon as you called my attention to it. Sep-12-09    Jim Bartle: Was anybody else watching the Serena-Clijsters match? The strangest ending I have ever seen. Clijsters won the first set, Serena was serving 5-6, 15-30--two points from losing. On her second serve she was called for a foot fault (very strange on a second serve), leading to match point against. Serena started gesturing and yelling at the lineswoman from about ten feet away. The lineswoman walked up to the umpire to report something, and when she walked back to her seat Serena went over again and started cursing her. The lineswoman walked to the umpire again, and this time the tournament referee came out, and started arguing with Serena, who argued, "I did NOT tell her I was going to kill her!" And after a minute Serena just walked over to Clijsters and shook her hand--match over. I guess she was given a penalty point, which was match point. Really, really strange. Clijsters just sat in her chair, trying to comprehend what had just happened. Sep-12-09    chessmoron: <Jim Bartle> After Serena held the ball and confronted the linesman...I know already what she said. "I going to put this ball up your butt." Sep-12-09    Jim Bartle: Serena's behavior was inexcusable, and she lost a point only because she had gotten a warning earlier, for smashing her racket when she lost the first set. Otherwise it would have been only 15-40 double match point, and she escapes from those in her sleep. But there needs to be some leeway with foot faults, especially on second serves. This was the first one called the entire match, and on such a decisive point. It's like calling a three second violation on Kobe Bryant with five seconds left and the score tied. And though the replay angle wasn't great, if she touched the line, it was by no more than an inch. This is going to be a youtube classic by tomorrow night. Sep-13-09    Jim Bartle: Serena: "I swear to God I'm [expletive] going to take this [expletive] ball and shove it down your [expletive] throat, you hear that? I swear to God." Sep-13-09    Phony Benoni: She sounds like one of those professional wrestlers who avoid getting pinned by getting disqualified instead, thus saving themselves embarrassment. Sep-13-09    Jim Bartle: I don't know, she just lost it. I have a lot of admiration for her. I don't think it was a Tyson ear-munching moment. She's come back to win from tough situations too many times. Sep-13-09    Travis Bickle: John McEnroe got away with more than that but being the Bobby Fischer of tennis I think the referee's were intimidated by him! You gotta love it though. Sep-13-09    Open Defence: did McEnroe ever threaten officials ? he might have insulted them, or questioned their competence / intelligence but I dont think he ever said stuff like I'm gonna do ***** to you.. Sep-13-09    Jim Bartle: McEnroe got defaulted a few times, including once at Wimbledon in the late 80s. He was extremely insulting to umpires, of course, and Jimmy Connors once called an ump an "abortion." But they never threatened them. And...they directed their anger at the umpire, who had the power to respond, and was a professional. Not the poor volunteer linesperson, who is instructed never to talk to the players. Sep-13-09    Travis Bickle: Phony, Jim and A.G. Im starting to get edgy as the tension starts to build! As The Chicago Bears and I start to put our game faces on for tomorrow nights kickoff it will be a long day!! But it will be all for the better to ignite the hatred the animosity and the physicality to go to war with these yellow faced cheese heads! So Be It!! Hoorah!!! Here's a video for all you sports fans out there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V0W... Sep-13-09    Travis Bickle: Mr Benoni and all you sports fans here's a comparison of Green Bay Packer fans women and Chicago Bears fan women. You be the judge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mDd... Sep-13-09    Open Defence: thank God the Packers do not have a Lingerie Bowl Team... Sep-13-09    Travis Bickle: <Open Defence> Deffi Im not defending Serena. I was just talking about my favorite tennis player Johnny Mc! As far as I'm concerned Serena and her sister are as big as men and should play the male players out there! A 6' 220 lb. Venus or Serena vs 5'6" 120 pound player's the sisters face it's a wonder someone hasnt been killed by their serves by now. LOL Sep-13-09    Travis Bickle: <Open Defence> Deffi they do. They photograph these women in he barn with the rest of the cows! HAHA!! Sep-13-09    Open Defence: < Travis Bickle: <Open Defence> Deffi Im not defending Serena. I was just talking about my favorite tennis player Johnny Mc! > yeah I know, its just that this phrase <John McEnroe got away with more than that but being the Bobby Fischer of tennis I think the referee's were intimidated by him!> might be misunderstood to mean that McEnroe threatened officials which iirc he never did... he was one of the bad boys.. the brat but I think it was a way to psych himself up and play better... Sep-13-09    Travis Bickle: <Open Defence> I agree with you Deffi. Sep-13-09    Phony Benoni: <Travis Bickle> On the surface, the decision is an easy one, but I'm going to have to view the second half of the video several more times to be absolutely sure. After all, it's not easy to decide whether you would rather be haunted by the ghost of George Halas or Vince Lombardi. Sep-13-09    playground player: <Phony Benoni> Oh, no! I did make you mad at me! Sorry, didn't mean to, just joshing... <WannaBe> You minimize Jeter a bit. After all, how many shortstops have hit more than 200 homeruns in their careers? Plus the defensive demands on the shortstop far exceed those on the first baseman. Most shortstops are not in the lineup to be sluggers! But more than a few first basemen are. Of course I recognize Gehrig as one of the all-time greats. Who doesn't? But Jeter may well be the best shortstop the Yankees have ever had. Sep-13-09    Phony Benoni: <positional genius> Oh, of course I'm not mad at you. When I can't think of anything to say, I'm content to let the other person have the last word. And I think you're quite right about Jeter and Gehrig. Baseball statistics are fun, but you have to be careful comparing players with different roles and from different eras. Sep-13-09    Jim Bartle: Jeter IS clearly the best shortstop the Yankees have ever had. An interesting thing I've noticed sometimes in Hall of Fame voting is that the more time passes, the more the voting depends on a player's batting statistics. As fewer and fewer voters remember seeing a guy play, they depend on the stats, and the quality of his fielding becomes less important. Sep-13-09    A.G. Argent: TRAVIS!! I hope you wrote that last night after midnight about getting edgy! The game is tonight not tomorrow!! And I'll pull for da Bears for you. Sep-13-09    Travis Bickle: <A.G. Argent> Thanks A.G.!! Attn: Jim Bartle the real sport starts today!!! Sep-13-09    Phony Benoni: <Travis Bickle> You mean Croquet is back? I hear the Detroit Puddy Tats are favored to beat the Chicago Boo-Boos. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 914) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 93 OF 914 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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