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BestChesstimate
Nov 16, 2011
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I'm new to the study of chess and recently learned about the windmill tactic.  Does anyone know where I could practice some puzzles involving this?

billwall
billwall
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Nov 16, 2011
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#2

See Edward Winter's article on windmills.

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/seesaw.html

bigryoung
bigryoung
Nov 16, 2011
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#3

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1100063

this is the game mentioned on wikipedia's page about the tactic. starts at move 25. pretty cool!

bigryoung
bigryoung
Nov 16, 2011
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#4

seems like it has something to do with being able to set up a discovered check again and again

BestChesstimate
BestChesstimate
Nov 16, 2011
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#5

Thanks for the input everyone.  I was hoping that there might be a place with puzzles where one could practice the windmill though.  Any thoughts?

bigryoung
bigryoung
Nov 16, 2011
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#6

play out the games without looking at the answers!

TheGrobe
TheGrobe
Nov 16, 2011
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#7
The problem is if you start a puzzle knowing it's a windmill puzzle it won't be much of a challenge. They're out there, but ideally you don't know what kind of tactic is employed in the solution to a puzzle ahead of time, just that there is one.