Chess Newsletter Issue 40

Chess With Ramkar

Author

Ramalingam Karthik P
June 14, 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 the skewer concept to get a piece

White to play and Win (skewer).

🧩 Puzzle 2: Intermediate Move

White to play and Win (intermediate move).

🧩 Puzzle 3:Greco’s Mate

Black 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: [Eliminating the Defense]

Today’s theme is about Eliminating the defense in chess.

💡 Key Insights:

  • You eliminate an opponent piece which is controlling an important square or supporting an opponent piece

Let us see an example to understand this

White to play and win

White starts with Rg6, capturing the knight. Now, the h8 square is not controlled by the knight, So the white rook on h1 can go to h8 and do the skewer

Variation 1: Rg6 Fg6 Rh8 wins the rook

Variation 2: Rg6 Kd7 Rg7 simply wins the knight

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📚 Puzzles from the Recent Tournaments

A massive blunder by former world Number 2 Levon Aronian

Jones vs Levon Aronian

World Rapid Team Championship

Here, the position is equal, and Black’s last move was Ne4. Find the continuation for White and share your answers by replying to [email protected].

White to play and win

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🧵 What I Posted This Week

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Thanks for reading!

Keep your bishops sneaky and your pawns poisonous. 😉


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Ramalingam Karthik
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