Chess Newsletter Issue 37

Chess With Ramkar

Author

Ramalingam Karthik P
June 08, 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: Pin

White to play and win (Concept : Pin)

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🧩 Puzzle 2: Skewer

Black to play and win (Concept : Skewer)

🧩 Puzzle 3: Pin

White to play and win

👉 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: [Passed Pawn Trick]

Today’s theme is about Passed Pawn Trick in chess

💡 Key Insights:

  • A passed pawn is a situation where your pawn can’t be stopped by another pawn in the same and adjacent/next column.

Let us see an example to understand this

White to play and Win

Here, H5 pawn is a passed pawn, as there are no black pawns to stop it in H or G column

White goes Ng7, sacrificing the knight. After black takes the knight, H6 and H7 wins the game for white as black cant stop the passed pawn

Ng7 Ng7 H6 Ne6 H7 wins or

Ng7 Kf7 Nf5 wins the free knight and white will eventually win the game

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📚 Puzzles from the Recent Tournaments

Beat the World Champion Gukesh

A massive blunder by the World Champion Gukesh in recently concluded Norway chess

Fabiano Caruana vs Gukesh D (Game 10)

Here, Caruana just played Bc7 attacking the Queen and Gukesh replied with D1=Q and this is a big blunder from the World Champion

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

Black played D1=Q and now 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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