Chess Newsletter Issue 47

Chess With Ramkar

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Ramalingam Karthik P
August 07, 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: Smothered like mate

White to play and mate in four

🧩 Puzzle 2: Stalemate Draw

White to play and make a stalemate.

🧩 Puzzle 3: Rook Endgame

White to play and win this rook endgame

👉 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: [Domination]

Today’s theme is about domination in chess

💡 Key Insights:

  • You create a situation where whatever your opponent tries on the board, your opponent would end up losing materials. You will be dominating the entire position.

Let us see an example to understand this

White to play and dominate the black queen

Variation 1: A5 Ka5 Nc6 fork wins

Variation 2: A5 Kb7 Nc6 Qa8 Kg7 and now black is in zugzwang and will lose his queen in the next move, as there is no free square for the queen.

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📚 Puzzles from the Recent Tournaments

Here, it is White to move. Find the move that White played to make a draw in this endgame position.

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

White to play and make a draw

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