Chess Newsletter Issue 46

Chess With Ramkar

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Ramalingam Karthik P
August 06, 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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🔥 Tactic Zone—Can You Crack These?

🧩 Puzzle 1: Overloaded Pieces

White to play and win

🧩 Puzzle 2: Fork

Black to play and win

🧩 Puzzle 3: Piece Sacrifice

White to play and checkmate the black king

👉 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: [Breakthrough]

Today’s theme is about breakthroughs in chess.

💡 Key Insights:

  • You can promote your pawn by breaking the opponent’s pawn structure.

Let us see an example to understand this

White to play and promote the pawn

B6 Ab6, C6 Bc6, and A6 wins, as the A pawn will be promoted in the next 2 moves

B6 Cb6, A6, Ba6, and C6 wins, as the C pawn will be promoted in the next 2 moves

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📚 Puzzles from the Recent Tournaments

Move like the World Champion Magnus Carlsen

A great move by World Champion Magnus in recently concluded E-Sports Final

Magnus vs Alireza

Here, it is White to move. Find the move that Magnus played to get an exchange advantage in the next 2-3 moves

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

White to play and win

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Keep your bishops sneaky and your pawns poisonous. 😉
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Ramalingam Karthik
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