Chess Newsletter Issue 59

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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 + Fork

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🧩 Puzzle 2: Decoy + Fork

🧩 Puzzle 3: Pin + Decoy

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—Top solvers get featured in the next issue

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📘 Mini-Lesson of the day: [Dovetail Mate]

Today’s theme is about the dovetail mate in chess.

💡 Key Insights:

• The enemy king is in a corner (usually h8 or a8).

• The king is boxed in by its own pieces, often a rook and a pawn on squares like g7 and h7 (if the king is on h8).

• The checkmating piece (typically a queen) delivers checkmate from a diagonal square (like g6 or f6) and cannot be captured.

• The king has no legal moves due to its own pieces and the check.

Let us see an example to understand this

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Qh8 Ke7 Qd8#

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