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Yes, brendan@79, there is often no hiding place nowadays with so many amateur chess games available on the net. I liked the way I was able to allow both my rooks to be captured by knights.

Routinely outplayed by International Master Chris Baker the next day.

Spectacular mating net in this game (videos also referenced in article)

https://www.chess.com/news/view/potential-game-of-year-romanian-championship

As a Caro-Kann player, I was initially alarmed, but then pleased to see that Black came out of the opening with an excellent position. Pawn-grabbing led to the problems.

Thanks Geeker, really enjoyed that:-)

Question for the chess aficionados regarding this week’s clueless word “MARCH”

Chambers
“A move made by a chess piece”

OED
“Chess - the move of a ‘man’ 1672”

Collins
Doesn’t have this usage at all as far as I can see.

My question is if this is still used and if so is it any single move by any piece or a series of moves as I see references to the “king march” and the “pawn march” online for example but they are not single moves as the dictionaries suggest

I don't recall ever seeing "march" used with reference to a single move.

"King march" is quite common, especially with reference to famous games such as
Short 1-0 Timman, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHcMY3Jvo2s
and
Kasparov 0-1 Petrosian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfkh_LydooI

"Pawn march" seems to occur sometimes, but less often.

Agree with geeker.

I am surprised at the definition of 'march' being a move at chess. It is essentially a sequence of one step moves, the king and the pawn being the only pieces limited to moving just one square at a time.

Thanks both, that confirms what I was thinking

Just noting that March 9 is Bobby Fischer's birthday. What a character he was.

Yes indeed, mathprof@88, and Bobby Fischer would have been 'only' 80.

Died in 2008 aged 64, the number of squares on a chess board. 64 also occurs in 1964 when he won the 12-player all-play-all US Championship with a perfect and unprecedented 11-0 score.

Magnus Carlsen currently 32 (half the number of squares) and World Chess Champion for only just over a month more. At least he has made it clear that he is voluntarily giving up the title, whereas Fischer kept everyone guessing when due to defend it in 1975 and eventually defaulted.

2023 World Championship match starting on April 7th: Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) v Ding Liren (China). I think that whoever wins will be a worthy champion - who's to say they wouldn't have beaten Carlsen despite having inferior ratings?

Dramatic back-and-forth World Championship match, 3-3 so far with 4 decisive games. Most exciting WC match in recent memory.

Aside from the official website and live coverage, there's ample expert commentary. Major chess sites chess.com, chess24.com, chessbase.com.

I like to watch Youtube postgame commentaries, some of which are uploaded very quickly. Among many options: Agadmator, GMHikaru (Nakamura), Chicken Chess Club (GMs Gustafsson, Fressinet - former trainers of Carlsen), C-Squared Podcast (GMs Fabiano Caruana, Cristian Chirila). The latter two are generally longer and more hard-core.