Chess Insights With Kar & Kish

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Explanation:

Here, in the below set of puzzles, we will try to use tactics or combinations which helps us in promoting the pawn

Example Puzzle:

Here, in the above puzzle, White can play Qe5 forcing black to play pawn to f6 or moving the king away from g8 and then white queen can capture the rook on d6. After the black queen takes the white queen on d6, white can play pawn on c7 with the plan of unavoidable pawn promotion

Qg8 Rg8 Nf7#

Instructions:
Try to solve the puzzles without moving the pieces.
Write down your solutions before checking the solution at the bottom

Puzzle Set:

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Challenging puzzle: White to move and win

🎯 Your Task:
Find the best continuation and write the full variation (not just the first move).

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Who’s Writing This?

Hi, Karthik and Kishore here —