The Windmill

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The windmill

The windmill is one of the most beautiful combinations in chess. Kotov provided the definition of a windmill as ‘a forcing series of attacks with discovered check.’The following famous game made this type of combination so well-known.


The attacking side exploited the power of a rookbishop battery. It is very important to learn how to coordinate these different pieces. They complement each other very well.

The windmill and other similar attacking set-ups are very dangerous and often lead not ‘only’ to a gain of material, but also directly to mate.

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DMGame

Nice! Just won a OTB tourn!

DoctorStrange

CONGRULATIONS BEN!

DMGame

Thanks!