Chess Newsletter Issue 53

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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: Win a rook using a fork

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🧩 Puzzle 2: Interfere with the rook's path and promote the pawn

🧩 Puzzle 3: Skewer and win a rook

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📘 Mini-Lesson of the day: [Recognize the threat and defend]

Today’s theme is about recognizing the threat and defending in chess.

💡 Key Insights:

• Here, find your opponent’s threat and save yourself from the threat.

Let us see an example to understand this

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Here, the black queen is attacking the king and bishop at the same time. Now if White defends the check by moving the king or by blocking with c3 or Nd2 or Nc3, White will lose the bishop on c5.

So, White can play B4 to escape from the check and defend the bishop.

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