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Chess Newsletter Issue 43
Chess With Ramkar
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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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🔥 Tactic Zone—Can You Crack These?
🧩 Puzzle 1: Damiano’s Mate

Black to play and mate in four
🧩 Puzzle 2: Back Rank Weakness

Black to play and mate in four
🧩 Puzzle 3: Smothered Mate

White to play and mate in four
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📘 Mini-Lesson of the day: [Greco’s Mate]
Today’s theme is about Greco Mate in chess
💡 Key Insights:
You checkmate the opponent king on the H or A column with the bishop blocking the opponent’s king escaping square
Let us see an example to understand this

White to play and mate in two
Qg6 Hg5 Qh5#
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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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