Chess Newsletter Issue 56

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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: Skewer

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🧩 Puzzle 2: Skewer

🧩 Puzzle 3: Interference

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📘 Mini-Lesson of the day: [Underpromotion]

Today’s theme is about intermediate moves in chess.

💡 Key Insights:

• In underpromotion, you promote a pawn into something except for a queen as taking a queen will not be beneficial.

Let us see an example to understand this

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Rc8 Rc8 Qa7 Ka7 C8=N and forks the queen and the king

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Rc8 Rc8 Qa7 Kc7 B8=Q wins

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