Chess Newsletter Issue 55

Chess With Ramkar

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Ramalingam Karthik P
August 16, 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: Decoy

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White to play and win.

🧩 Puzzle 2: Decoy

White to play and win

🧩 Puzzle 3: Fork

Black to play and win a piece

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📘 Mini-Lesson of the day: [Discovered Attack]

Today’s theme is about intermediate moves in chess.

💡 Key Insights:

Let us see an example to understand this

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White to play and win

Qb8 helps white to be in the same line as the black queen in the B column. After Black blocks the check with Bf8, White can play Bf7 to do a discovered attack and win the queen on B2.

Qb8 Bf8 Bf7 discovered attack and wins the queen.

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