Chess Newsletter Issue 41

Chess With Ramkar

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Ramalingam Karthik P
June 18, 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.

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🔥 Mate Patterns—Can You Crack These Mating Patterns?

🧩 Puzzle 1: Anastasia’s Mate

White to play and mate in three.

🧩 Puzzle 2: Back Rank Mate

White to play and mate in three.

🧩 Puzzle 3: Smothered Mate

White to play and mate in three

👉 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: [Corner’s Mate]

Today’s theme is about Corner’s Mate in chess.

💡 Key Insights:

  • In Corner’s Mate, you checkmate the opponent king with your knight while a rook or queen covers the next file.

Let us see an example to understand this

Black to play and Mate in two

Black starts with Qg1, sacrificing the queen. White has to capture the queen with his F1 rook. Now Nf2 will be corner’s checkmate

Variation 1: Qg1 Rg1 Nf2#

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📚 Puzzles from the Recent Tournaments

Finish like Magnus Carlsen

Anastasia's Mate, made by Former World Champion Carlsen a couple of years ago

Magnus Carlsen vs Ding Liren

Here, it is White to move. Find the move that Magnus 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 mate in two.

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Ramalingam Karthik
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