Chess Newsletter Issue 49

Chess With Ramkar

Author

Ramalingam Karthik P
August 09, 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: Promote white’s pawn to a queen

White to play and win

🧩 Puzzle 2: Mate in four

White to play

🧩 Puzzle 3: Domination mate

White to play and win

👉 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: [Rook Endgame Skewer]

Today’s theme is about Skewer in chess..

💡 Key Insights:

  • A skewer is a powerful chess tactic where a more valuable piece is attacked, forcing it to move and exposing a less valuable piece behind it.

Let us see an example to understand this

White to play and win

White starts with Rg8, planning to promote the a7 pawn to a queen. Now, black has to capture the a7 pawn which will lead to a skewer when white rook goes to g7

Rg8 Ra7 Rg7 Kc8 Ra7 wins the rook

➡️ Check it out here →

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📚 Puzzles from the Recent Tournaments

Here, it is White to move. Find the move that white played to promote the pawn

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

White to play

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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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