Chess Newsletter Issue 58

Chess With Ramkar

Author

Ramalingam Karthik P
August 28, 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.

Let’s jump into the action! 👇

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🔥 Tactic Zone—Can You Crack These?

🧩 Puzzle 1: Back Rank Mate

White to play and mate in two

🧩 Puzzle 2: Boden’s Mate

White to play and mate in three

🧩 Puzzle 3: Smothered Mate

White to play and mate in two

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📘 Mini-Lesson of the day: [Hook Mate]

Today’s theme is about Hook Mate in chess.

💡 Key Insights:

  • Hookmate involves a rook, a knight, and often a pawn or a king or a bishop supporting the knight, where the rook delivers the checkmate.

Let us see an example to understand this

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White to play and mate in two

Ra8 Kd7 Rd8# or

Ra8 Kf7 Rf8#

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Ramalingam Karthik
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