Chess Newsletter Issue 57

Chess With Ramkar

Author

Ramalingam Karthik P
August 26, 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: Mate in two

White to play

🧩 Puzzle 2: Mate in Three (Hook Mate)

White to play and mate in three

🧩 Puzzle 3: Mate in two

Black to play and mate in two

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📘 Mini-Lesson of the day [Deflection]

Today’s theme is about Deflection in chess.

💡 Key Insights:

  • In deflection, you attack a piece and distract it from its square to get an advantage.

Let us see an example to understand this

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White to play and promote the pawn to a queen

C7 Bc7 A7 wins and promotes into a queen.

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Keep your bishops sneaky and your pawns poisonous. 😉
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Ramalingam Karthik
FIDE Rating Peak: 2086
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