Chess Newsletter Issue 45

Chess With Ramkar

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Ramalingam Karthik P
August 05, 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: Arabian Mate

Black to play and mate in three

🧩 Puzzle 2: Lolli’s Mate

White to play and mate in two

🧩 Puzzle 3: Two Knights Mate

Black to play and mate in two

👉 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: [Max Lange’s Mate]

Today’s theme is about Max Lange’s Mate in chess.

💡 Key Insights:

  • Here, you control the king’s escape through a couple of bishop moves and finally checkmate the king with your queen.

Let us see an example to understand this

White to play and Mate in three.

If White starts with Qh7, black king will escape to f7

So, White starts with Bh7 check, and Black plays the only move to Kh8. Now, White plays Bg6 and gives a discovered check and also controls the king’s escaping square of f7.

After the king goes to g8, now white gives a checkmate by Qh7.

Bh7 Kh8 Bg6 Kg8 Qh7#

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📚 Puzzles from the Recent Tournaments

Move like Alireza to beat Magnus Carlsen

A great move by Alireza to beat Magnus in the recently concluded E-Sports Final.

Alireza vs Magnus

Here, Black just played Ne4. Find the move that Alireza played to finish off the game after Ne4 in the next 2 moves

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

Black just played Ne4 which is a blunder. Find the next few moves for white to 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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