Chess Newsletter Issue 38

Chess With Ramkar

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Ramalingam Karthik P
June 09, 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: Use Pin concept to get a piece

White to play and win a piece (concept: Pin)

🧩 Puzzle 2: Back Rank Weakness

Black to play and Win (concept: Create back rank weakness)

🧩 Puzzle 3: Deflection

Black to play and win (Concept : Deflection)

👉 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: [Zugzwang]

Today’s theme is about Zugzwang in chess

💡 Key Insights:

  • You create a situation where whatever the opponent moves, your opponent would lose some material

Let us see an example to understand this

White to play and Win

White starts with Re4, attacking the bishop. Now, wherever the black moves, the black would lose his bishop

Variation 1: Bg3/bf2 The king can capture the bishop

Variation 2: Be1 Re1 captures the rook

Variation 3: Kf5/Kg6/Kf6 the rook will capture the bishop

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📚 Puzzles from the Recent Tournaments

Move like the World Champion Gukesh

A great move by World Champion Gukesh in recently concluded Norway chess

Gukesh vs Fabiano Caruana

Here, it is White to move. Find the move that Gukesh played to finish off the game in the next 2 moves

Find the continuation for White and share your answers by replying to [email protected].

White to play and win (Hint: Take another piece to attack the black king)

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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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