@@Beleidigen-ist-Pflichtusing thorn in 2023? I certainly didn’t expect that. (For those confused, thorn was an old English letter used to signify the “th” sound)
I don't remember which game, but there was actually a devastating windmill in one of the games at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament last month. GothamChess featured it in one of his recaps.
11:28 for moves like this it's always important to consider what you're actually threatening if the sacrifice is not accepted. In this case it's simple. You either get the windmill tactic or the queen and black cannot defend against both in a single move.
That Fischer windmill really is incredible. It's easy to see why they called it the Game of the Century, especially considering Fischer was just a kid at the time.
What I don't get about the end there though is why he took the bishop back and not the rook on d1. Is it because he gets the attack on the queen with the same move? Oh now I see it, the knight is defended, thats why white can still only save the queen or the rook and so still loses the rook. No way I would see that in a game myself...
13:21 After Nxe4, can't white play Rd3? Sure, it loses the exchange, but they stop the windmill that way. Since the knight is no longer on c3, now the Queen is protecting it
Furthermore, White is not obligated to take the Queen 1.....Be6 2. Bxb6? is a mistake..... Instead of Bxb6, the game can continue 2. Qxc3 Qxc5 3. dxc5 Bxc3 4. Bxe6 fxe6 (or Rxe6) with even position? What am I missing?? (Of course I didn't check this position on a computer!)
@@danielhoang289 This was actually a really good question and I had to put it in the engine to understand. Black has the option of axb6 capturing the bishop and using the rook on a8 to threaten the queen. Even if white moves the queen to safety, black takes the rook and is up a lot of material, especially when you consider one of white's rooks is trapped in the corner
I once did this tactic with a Knight, it tends to be really devastating with a knight as after the bishop check there are around 24 different squares that the knight can be attacking on different rows which means unless the queen is on the opposite side of the board chances are you will take 2-3 pieces and a queen without much loss. I took 3 peices and a queen that game. because of the windmill I ended up getting 93 accuracy.
Nelson, would you be so kind, in the next video, to remember to separate the position code for us? It's a lot more difficult to solve it by head, but it is also painful to set up the pos. But since you've already done that, it would be really kind of you to share it so we can have the board ready for us to think before seeing the solution.
The windmill tactic is basically the chess equivalent of that one scene in Kingsman where Harry is beating and killing the people in that church and he is turning back and forth stabbing different people.
Used it once before. My opponent couldn't believe I had taken so many of his pieces. I just learned that my took can also travel up and down the board. Learning tactics is critical for winning games. Thanks for the tips.
Thanks for this video. Watched it yesterday and that night I almost got a rook windmill set up. Opponent was able to wiggle out. But today had a match where I was down my queen, and was able to pull the windmill with a knight! Kept forking their King and grabbed a rook, pawn, and eventually added my own rook and scored a bishop. Used them to keep moving the king along the board until I got the mate.
hi try this chalange every time you move with piece on that starting posicion you must go on this posicion with your king next move. I think it will be fun
The last puzzle is actually even better. It's not over yet, and it's the windmill tactics that actually makes the position lost for white. He can't move the queen to either c1 or b2 because of another Ne2+. So white only has Qb4 and Qd6 left, which both force Q sacrifice a few moves later.
12:18 - what happens if black king goes to g6? Is there any way to save both bishop and rook? If no - so by windmill tactic white won only one pawn and it's not so wow. My elo is 800-900, I definitely don't see something
There is no way to save both bishop and rook, but the engine still gives this position +4.8 to white. Notice that white won 2 pawns during that windmill, not just 1. At the end, after you move the rook away from the king, king takes bishop, then rook takes h6 - white is up 3 pawns, and the black king is very exposed.
At 7:23 I think were black to play it'd win right? Something about queen takes pawn and check, I think king must move right, queen takes bishop and check, king must move left, then sacrifice rook from above by bringing it next to the king's left, takes, then bring the other rook to b1 check, then white king can go left a8 or right c8, if c8 then bringing the queen defended so checkmate maybe else bringing the queen one square further left that is to b7 and it's checkmate right? No piece can be taken. But I'm unsure and must go and think about it later 😅
You should play against martin but you move your pieces in power order, so first turn you move your pawn, second the knight, third turn bishop, then rook, and then queen, and after that king. If a piece gets taken then just keep going in order without that piece. If your king is checked you must block with the piece on that turn or you lose. BTW castling counts as a king or rook move. This should be a fun challenge! 😉
2:51 and 3:47 puzzles just have the same moves. 1.Rxg2+ Kh1 2. Rxf2+ Kg1 3. Rg2+ Kh1 4. Rg(any number from 3 to 8)+ Rf3 5. Bxf3# Why you did two same puzzles and by the way in a row?
I achieved a windmill tactic that resulted in mate in my most recent game. I was so excited when I saw the opportunity to devastate my opponent with it.
Sorry but this is NOT a windmill. It is the same principle but if you think about it, the name windmill actually comes from the type of position you get with a knight and a bishop. Bobby Fischer's game exemplifies this obviously. It is called a windmill because of the circular nature of the squares the knight can go to. This is the same principle but it doesn't resemble an actual windmill at all.
@12:20 doesnt white also win the h6 Pawn Via Ng4? Plus, bringing another Piece to the Party means you can cover more Squares around the Black King, possibly Weaving a Mating Net in the Process. you would also open up your Rook for various Possibilities along the E File in the Future with this
in the last one i found a smothered mate if white decides to take the bishop instead of the queen then we got check on b5 with the queen instead ..now the smothered comes if white decides to go to g1 with the king then we got 2 checks with the knight (second one being double check its forced mate ) and if white decides to blockwith the queen then we can simply trade and take back the bishop but we are still in a better potition
Challenge: Fairy Chess Basically, there are special pieces: The Archbishop (Bishop and Knight), the Chancellor (Rook and Knight) and the Amazon (Queen and Knight) that you can use to add in another layer of strategy. This might not sound like a challenge to some people, but you can't deny that it makes for some good chess content
Fairy chess is not balanced imo, the archbishop is way too powerful, it can even deliver a checkmate alone since it can cover 4 squares at once, while staying 2 squares away from a king.
At 7:28, why not move the bishop to f6 instead of sacrificing the queen? Appears to me this leads to an inevitable checkmate in at most 4 moves, regardless of what black does. What am I missing?
7:20 I can't see a refutation for Bf6. If g6, Qg7# is checkmate. If Rxf6, Qg7# is again checkmate. If Rf7, then Rxg7+; if Rxg7, Qg7# is checkmate again; If Kh8, Rg8# is again checkmate. If Rb7 or Qb7, same line as Rf7. Am i missing something?
The "refutation" is Qxc2+ followed by Qxe2# next turn, which is why white has to sacrifice their queen - they need to keep the black king in check every single turn until they have an opportunity to take the black queen.
in that first master game, wouldn't bishop to f6 set up a more efficient windmill? it seems like black's only move to prolong the game beyond 1 move is to move rook to f7 and that sets up rook to g7 with the windmill to follow.
Looking the first few examples, looks like there's a bit of reverse zugzwang going on, forcing the opponent into a slightly favorable position with the rooks. I wonder if there's a word for that, and how that could be used in other ways.
It's just a series of checks and discovered checks, none of which are considered zugzwang. And if anything, it would be a typical zugzwang, as reverse zugzwang would refers to a situation where every move immediately lead to an improvement to your position.
I was playing chess and i set up windmill trap i wandet to capture his quean but he nearly back rank checkmated me but i can block with something but everything he can take but then i see that i can block it with rook with check and i did it and win qeans and win game this is probably best tactin in chess.
You capture the bishop with pawn takes b6. The queen has to move cuz she is hanging and if she wants to protect the rook there is only one square she can move to which is c3. Then you can take the knight on f3 with the knight which opens a discovered attack on the queen while threatening checkmate via rook to e1. Now black can only give up the queen for the bishop and then take the knight with the pawn. P.S.: The best engine line after blocking the rook is just ignoring the hanging queen. Not something a human would play but still its already completely losing for white. The best line for white after the first move is ignoring black´s queen and taking the black knight on c3 with the queen. Black then takes white´s bishop on c5 with the black queen taking advantage of the pawn being pinned by the bishop on g7. Then white takes the queen with the pawn, black takes the queen with the bishop, white bishop takes the black bishop, rook takes bishop and black is up 2 pawns by the end of all of the trades.
That was brilliant. I will look for it, but hard to see better than a simple version until I've had more practice, if at all. Playing at 1300 v Nelson bot now - up from 1200. 🙂
legend say that Anish Giri encounters this often because he's dutch
His name sounds like an Indian but he’s Dutch 💀
He is nepalese, I heard, who plays for þe dutch.
So I don't believe your analogy works as well.
@@Beleidigen-ist-Pflichtusing thorn in 2023? I certainly didn’t expect that.
(For those confused, thorn was an old English letter used to signify the “th” sound)
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I don't remember which game, but there was actually a devastating windmill in one of the games at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament last month. GothamChess featured it in one of his recaps.
After seeing this same video I did some research on the tactic and it's absolutely disgusting to do to someone haha
Max Warmerdam vs idk i forgot
Max Warmerdam vs Jergus Pechac
11:28 for moves like this it's always important to consider what you're actually threatening if the sacrifice is not accepted. In this case it's simple. You either get the windmill tactic or the queen and black cannot defend against both in a single move.
That Fischer windmill really is incredible. It's easy to see why they called it the Game of the Century, especially considering Fischer was just a kid at the time.
What I don't get about the end there though is why he took the bishop back and not the rook on d1. Is it because he gets the attack on the queen with the same move? Oh now I see it, the knight is defended, thats why white can still only save the queen or the rook and so still loses the rook. No way I would see that in a game myself...
13:21 After Nxe4, can't white play Rd3? Sure, it loses the exchange, but they stop the windmill that way. Since the knight is no longer on c3, now the Queen is protecting it
Furthermore, White is not obligated to take the Queen 1.....Be6 2. Bxb6? is a mistake..... Instead of Bxb6, the game can continue 2. Qxc3 Qxc5 3. dxc5 Bxc3 4. Bxe6 fxe6 (or Rxe6) with even position? What am I missing?? (Of course I didn't check this position on a computer!)
@@danielhoang289 This was actually a really good question and I had to put it in the engine to understand. Black has the option of axb6 capturing the bishop and using the rook on a8 to threaten the queen. Even if white moves the queen to safety, black takes the rook and is up a lot of material, especially when you consider one of white's rooks is trapped in the corner
Hope to encounter this in a real game soon
Carlos Torre Repetto vs Emanuel Lasker 1925 played in Moscow. This game is where this term windmill originated from.
I once did this tactic with a Knight, it tends to be really devastating with a knight as after the bishop check there are around 24 different squares that the knight can be attacking on different rows which means unless the queen is on the opposite side of the board chances are you will take 2-3 pieces and a queen without much loss. I took 3 peices and a queen that game. because of the windmill I ended up getting 93 accuracy.
Nelson, would you be so kind, in the next video, to remember to separate the position code for us? It's a lot more difficult to solve it by head, but it is also painful to set up the pos. But since you've already done that, it would be really kind of you to share it so we can have the board ready for us to think before seeing the solution.
The windmill tactic is basically the chess equivalent of that one scene in Kingsman where Harry is beating and killing the people in that church and he is turning back and forth stabbing different people.
Used it once before. My opponent couldn't believe I had taken so many of his pieces. I just learned that my took can also travel up and down the board. Learning tactics is critical for winning games. Thanks for the tips.
You need take their pieces even on a
Checkmate. You need to flex on them then tell them "Well played"
Thank you very much, I enjoyed it and learned a lot!
Thanks for this video. Watched it yesterday and that night I almost got a rook windmill set up. Opponent was able to wiggle out.
But today had a match where I was down my queen, and was able to pull the windmill with a knight! Kept forking their King and grabbed a rook, pawn, and eventually added my own rook and scored a bishop. Used them to keep moving the king along the board until I got the mate.
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hi try this chalange every time you move with piece on that starting posicion you must go on this posicion with your king next move. I think it will be fun
The last puzzle is actually even better. It's not over yet, and it's the windmill tactics that actually makes the position lost for white. He can't move the queen to either c1 or b2 because of another Ne2+. So white only has Qb4 and Qd6 left, which both force Q sacrifice a few moves later.
12:18 - what happens if black king goes to g6? Is there any way to save both bishop and rook? If no - so by windmill tactic white won only one pawn and it's not so wow. My elo is 800-900, I definitely don't see something
There is no way to save both bishop and rook, but the engine still gives this position +4.8 to white.
Notice that white won 2 pawns during that windmill, not just 1. At the end, after you move the rook away from the king, king takes bishop, then rook takes h6 - white is up 3 pawns, and the black king is very exposed.
At 7:23 I think were black to play it'd win right? Something about queen takes pawn and check, I think king must move right, queen takes bishop and check, king must move left, then sacrifice rook from above by bringing it next to the king's left, takes, then bring the other rook to b1 check, then white king can go left a8 or right c8, if c8 then bringing the queen defended so checkmate maybe else bringing the queen one square further left that is to b7 and it's checkmate right? No piece can be taken. But I'm unsure and must go and think about it later 😅
That Fischer game is super famous, that move was iconic
Regarding the last puzzle, the queen can take your knight if you start with the move of light square bishop.
12:53 A Windmill with a knigh? Bobby Fisher should've been a fan of Don Quixote.
You should play against martin but you move your pieces in power order, so first turn you move your pawn, second the knight, third turn bishop, then rook, and then queen, and after that king. If a piece gets taken then just keep going in order without that piece. If your king is checked you must block with the piece on that turn or you lose. BTW castling counts as a king or rook move. This should be a fun challenge! 😉
2:51 and 3:47 puzzles just have the same moves.
1.Rxg2+ Kh1
2. Rxf2+ Kg1
3. Rg2+ Kh1
4. Rg(any number from 3 to 8)+ Rf3
5. Bxf3#
Why you did two same puzzles and by the way in a row?
I achieved a windmill tactic that resulted in mate in my most recent game. I was so excited when I saw the opportunity to devastate my opponent with it.
In the first master puzzle there was a check mate in two or you can get a queen for a bishop
I just used this tactic now in a game I played a few minutes ago
It's awesome
Sorry but this is NOT a windmill. It is the same principle but if you think about it, the name windmill actually comes from the type of position you get with a knight and a bishop. Bobby Fischer's game exemplifies this obviously. It is called a windmill because of the circular nature of the squares the knight can go to. This is the same principle but it doesn't resemble an actual windmill at all.
6:50 It looks to me like black can also play Rg6. If white Rf3, Rxf6 and the rook is pinned; exf6 makes a passed pawn though. If instead Qf3, Bxf3.
@12:20 doesnt white also win the h6 Pawn Via Ng4? Plus, bringing another Piece to the Party means you can cover more Squares around the Black King, possibly Weaving a Mating Net in the Process.
you would also open up your Rook for various Possibilities along the E File in the Future with this
I love this in my actual games so much, but I never knew what it was called until now.
So in a nutshell, you do a discovered check on someone until their pieces vanish into nothing.
Im just wondering... is rook to g1 not mate in the third and fourth minute of the video?
It should be since there is a double-check situation
It’s not defended. They can just take it and dodge the bishop check at the same time.
As I can see, the original position if you move your rook to anywhere on the G file is gonna be mate, no? I mean, after taking the pawn on F7
In last puzzle does kb8 work's?? The line goes like this
20 kb8 bxb6
21 kxa3
Then 2 bishop are hanging
in the last one i found a smothered mate if white decides to take the bishop instead of the queen then we got check on b5 with the queen instead ..now the smothered comes if white decides to go to g1 with the king then we got 2 checks with the knight (second one being double check its forced mate ) and if white decides to blockwith the queen then we can simply trade and take back the bishop but we are still in a better potition
4:14 I think the most baller move would be for black to drop the rook only to G3
10:22 once the king moves, Rg7 check with tempo!
Challenge: Fairy Chess
Basically, there are special pieces: The Archbishop (Bishop and Knight), the Chancellor (Rook and Knight) and the Amazon (Queen and Knight) that you can use to add in another layer of strategy.
This might not sound like a challenge to some people, but you can't deny that it makes for some good chess content
Fairy chess is not balanced imo, the archbishop is way too powerful, it can even deliver a checkmate alone since it can cover 4 squares at once, while staying 2 squares away from a king.
Please do not call it Chancellor, call it by its real name (Knook)
8:27 here you can mate the King with Rg7 not Bh5
Ke8
1:08 is that still mate if the pawn can take the rook?
At 7:28, why not move the bishop to f6 instead of sacrificing the queen? Appears to me this leads to an inevitable checkmate in at most 4 moves, regardless of what black does. What am I missing?
Ah, I see, need to maintain check on black's king, or black simply mates in 2
7:20 I can't see a refutation for Bf6. If g6, Qg7# is checkmate. If Rxf6, Qg7# is again checkmate. If Rf7, then Rxg7+; if Rxg7, Qg7# is checkmate again; If Kh8, Rg8# is again checkmate. If Rb7 or Qb7, same line as Rf7. Am i missing something?
The "refutation" is Qxc2+ followed by Qxe2# next turn, which is why white has to sacrifice their queen - they need to keep the black king in check every single turn until they have an opportunity to take the black queen.
8:25 Maybe instead of Bh5 we can do Rg7? Is that check mate ?
Isnt the first puzzle M3? Rxf7+, kg8, rg7+, kh8, rg6#?
The point of the windmill is not to checkmate, it's to torment your opponent
this tactic allowed me to get a draw down a Queen a long time ago. I probably could have even won that game, but I didn't bother checking.
0:28 why not move the rook down the file , isn't it checkmate
in that first master game, wouldn't bishop to f6 set up a more efficient windmill? it seems like black's only move to prolong the game beyond 1 move is to move rook to f7 and that sets up rook to g7 with the windmill to follow.
Ah. it looks like black not being in check could go straight to checkmating white. that pesky thing.
Looking the first few examples, looks like there's a bit of reverse zugzwang going on, forcing the opponent into a slightly favorable position with the rooks. I wonder if there's a word for that, and how that could be used in other ways.
It's just a series of checks and discovered checks, none of which are considered zugzwang. And if anything, it would be a typical zugzwang, as reverse zugzwang would refers to a situation where every move immediately lead to an improvement to your position.
I actually just used this in a game and won :) Thanks for the tip
1:06 In this position, I would definitely play Rc7+ to win the queen and totally miss the mate.
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I was playing chess and i set up windmill trap i wandet to capture his quean but he nearly back rank checkmated me but i can block with something but everything he can take but then i see that i can block it with rook with check and i did it and win qeans and win game this is probably best tactin in chess.
0:10 Rook g6 is maye
Windmill tactic is so powerful. You can literally kill your opponent's entire house
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at 12:13 if kg6 what is the continuation?
The duck chess game that had been going on between Nelson and the community hasn't seen any progress since 5 days now :(
That last one was crazy, but why he didn't take the rock with the knight instead of the bishop? to unleash the rock in a8?
From the starting position isn't it just mate in 1? What
13:22, at this position, how bout if white sac the rook go to d3 to block the bishop?
You capture the bishop with pawn takes b6. The queen has to move cuz she is hanging and if she wants to protect the rook there is only one square she can move to which is c3. Then you can take the knight on f3 with the knight which opens a discovered attack on the queen while threatening checkmate via rook to e1. Now black can only give up the queen for the bishop and then take the knight with the pawn.
P.S.: The best engine line after blocking the rook is just ignoring the hanging queen. Not something a human would play but still its already completely losing for white.
The best line for white after the first move is ignoring black´s queen and taking the black knight on c3 with the queen. Black then takes white´s bishop on c5 with the black queen taking advantage of the pawn being pinned by the bishop on g7. Then white takes the queen with the pawn, black takes the queen with the bishop, white bishop takes the black bishop, rook takes bishop and black is up 2 pawns by the end of all of the trades.
@@joaopop1199 yeah.. better than crashed by windmill, right?
U can mate if you move the room backward
Huh
6:01 Rook to G1 is checkmate though
At the 40sec in vid i relise you can put rook to g5 and it will by chechmate
0:43 I can see a mate in 1
Next video: Counter your opponents' windmills with the Don Quixote chess tactic.
That was brilliant. I will look for it, but hard to see better than a simple version until I've had more practice, if at all. Playing at 1300 v Nelson bot now - up from 1200. 🙂
7:07 I messed up here because I assumed black had a queen for some dumb reason so I thought Rg6 to be up a queen was fine
11:20 what if Qh6
the enemy king has completely lost xd
For some reason the only one that I was able to get was the master one
I see all of them 😎😎
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I thought bobby fisher was a character you made up
I'm surprised alekhine vs fletcher is not in this video
Ahh...the don quixote strategy
I'm proud of myself because I've solved every puzzle except Master difficulty ones (btw, I'm 1400)
Why isn’t this a draw due to perpetual check?
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this sis like getting 5 moves in 1 turn and it feels like cheating
Rxe7+ Kg8 Rg7+ Kh8 Rg6#?
It's not checkmate until you completely demoralize your opponent
I see a duck in your chessboard lol
Imagine losing all your piece and get checkmated anyway
The audio needs fixing here.
But the Queen can just Take the rook at 6:23
Yes, but that's exactly what he said in the video?
At last
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But Rxe7 Rg7 Rg5#
Oh he says Rg6# later in the video
Bro this is an check mate
Of course Fischer uses a knight for a windmill instead wtf.
That's genuinely evil
um no, no this would not work with a queen. just a rook
He said queen and rook not queen and bishop. But 9 times out of 10, it'd be mate in 2
I would smash my laptop screen if someone did that to me
Really liked the final example with the knight being involved
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This is just abusing your opponent