Chess Newsletter Issue 52

Chess With Ramkar

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Ramalingam Karthik P
August 13, 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: Mate in one (Discovered Attack)

Black to play and mate in one

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🧩 Puzzle 2: Mate in one (X-Ray attack)

Black to play and mate in one

🧩 Puzzle 3: Interference

White to play and win

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—Top solvers get featured in the next issue

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📘 Mini-Lesson of the day: [Trapping Piece]

Today’s theme is about trapping pieces in chess.

💡 Key Insights:

  • Here, you will be trapping your opponent’s piece where you will play a move and attack a piece and restrict its movement

Let us see an example to understand this

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Black to play and trap a white piece

Bg5 traps the queen on h6.

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Ramalingam Karthik
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