Chess Newsletter Issue 42

Chess With Ramkar

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Ramalingam Karthik P
June 26, 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: Trapping a piece

White to play and trap the black rook

🧩 Puzzle 2: Magnet

White to play and mate in two

🧩 Puzzle 3: Opera 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: [Seventh Rank]

Today’s theme is about the seventh rank in chess.

💡 Key Insights:

  • You create a situation where you take your rook to the 7th row to attack your opponent’s kingside. or queenside

Let us see an example to understand this

The white queen is already on h6 and closer to the black king. If one of the white pieces joins the attack, white can checkmate the black’s weak king.

So, white can trade the black bishop, which is controlling the d7 square

Variation 1: Bc6 bc6 Rd7 and now the checkmate is unavoidable

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📚 Puzzles from the Recent Tournaments

Move like Magnus Carlsen

A great move by former World Champion Magnus Carlsen in 2001.

Here, it is Black to move. Find the move that Magnus played to finish off the game in the next 2-3 moves

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

Black 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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