Chess Newsletter Issue 54

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🔥 Tactic Zone—Can You Crack These?

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🧩 Puzzle 1: Pillsbury Mate (Mate in two)

🧩 Puzzle 2: Mate in two

🧩 Puzzle 3: Greco Mate (Mate in two)

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📘 Mini-Lesson of the day: [Remove the defender]

Today’s theme is about removing the defender in chess.

💡 Key Insights:

• Here, in this tactic, you will be removing a defending piece to capture a free piece in the next move

Let us see an example to understand this

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Here, the white knight on d4 is protecting the bishop on B5. So, Black can capture the knight and then can capture the bishop for free.

Bd4 Qd4 Qb5 wins a piece.

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