Windmills

Okay, you know forks, pins, and skewers. But do you know the ultimate tactic, the windmill? It is very powerful but very rare. A windmill is a check, followed by a discovered check, followed by a check, followed by a discovered check, and so on. It only ends when the attacker gets what he wants. You don't want to be on the receiving end of one! Here is an example of a basic windmill.

Sometimes it's not so easy. Here's an example of White cleverly setting up a windmill.

The famous "Game of the Century" features a short windmill:

wonderful!!!  awasome!

the secound position is wrong due to the fact black has RxB.

Here is another type of windmill: 

http://www.chess.com/chessopedia/view/windmill

Here is a position from a real game, (i forget the players, but the game is in Chernev's THE MOST INSTRUCTIVE GAMES EVER PLAYED), which I posted in another post just a short while ago, to illustrate a different point:

That final position is hilarious! I love that. I have Chernev's book here -- it's game nineteen A Kupferstich - J. Andreassen Denmark 1953

Thanx, that sounds right...

And if you want to see something educational -- put that final position into fritz or toga II and see what it comes up with... as Chernev points out there is a very simple forced mate where the White king marches on black squares down to e7... then the N delivers mate from f6.  But my chess-engine (toga II) botches it completely and lets the King and rook out of prison (after winning the bishop). Just goes to show you that engines really have their limitations.

cooooooooooooolllllll man it ws awesome

Well, the rook captures a bishop, a knight, four pawns, and recaptures the queen, and fine, it loses your bishop. But you still gain a knight and four pawns. And by the way, I checked out your link, and that windmill is the same kind.

Really? What about 11...Rf8?

Please tell me you didn't think I meant 14...Rxf6 ?


The point is that 5...Rxf6 stops the windmill. thus I think the correct sequence from the starting position is:

Bf6 Qxh5 Rxg7+ Kh8 Rg5+ Kh7 Rxh5.

And no, the link does not demonstrate a different "kind" of windmill, but rather, how it can be done with a knight+bishop/Queen.

good...

 or how about r-g6 #

 maybe I am real tired...(I did just post something silly on one of the articles).

But, doesn't the bishop cover h8  while the knight covers h7 and the rook covers the g file.  Isn't that mate or do I need to not play any games tonight? 

 Black can interpose with ...Rf6, and then it's mate with Bxf6#.

 Ah yes.  I always miss those ones.