Chess Newsletter Issue 36

Chess With Ramkar

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Ramalingam Karthik P
June 07, 2025

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Welcome back to Chess With Ramkar —your chess newsletter for tactical workouts, practical insights, and sharp ideas to level up your chess game.

Let’s jump into the action! 👇

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🔥 Tactic Zone—Can You Crack These?

🧩 Puzzle 1: Mate in 2

White to play and Mate in two

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🧩 Puzzle 2: Mating Net

White to play and Win (Put black king in mating net)

🧩 Puzzle 3: Stalemate Trick

White to play and draw

White is completely losing ; However, white can use stalemate trick to escape with a draw

👉 Send your answers by replying to this email ([email protected])

—Top solvers get featured in the next issue

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📘 Mini-Lesson of the day: [Domination]

Today’s theme is about domination in chess

💡 Key Insights:

  • You create a situation where whatever your opponent tries on the board, your opponent would end up losing materials.

Let us see an example to understand this

White to play and Win (Dominate the black bishop) - Check the answer below

White starts with Kb1, attacking the bishop. Now, wherever the black bishop tries to escape, it will be captured by the white knight through a fork.

Variation 1: Kb1 Bc3 or Bd4 Nd6 Kc7 Nb5 fork wins the bishop

Variation 2: Kb1 Bf6 or Bg7 Nd6 Kc7 Ne8 fork wins the bishop

Variation 3: Kb1 Bb2/Be5/Bh8 loses the bishop directly

So, here by playing Kb1, white has dominated black’s bishop

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📚 Puzzles from the Recent Tournaments

Beat the World Number 1

A massive blunder by World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in recently concluded Norway chess

Wei Yi vs Magnus Carlsen (Game 8)

Here, Carlsen just played Rc2 attacking the Queen and this is a big blunder by Carlsen

Find the continuation for white to get material advantage against the World Number 1 and share your answers by replying to [email protected]

White to play and win

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Keep your bishops sneaky and your pawns poisonous. 😉
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Ramalingam Karthik
FIDE Rating Peak: 2086
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