Another windmill

when the word windmill is mentioned.... is it referring to the pieces that you move say the pawn on g2 then the rook so infact you are going round like a windmill? its all good fun enjoyed this tactical puzzle 🙂

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Valentin Rudenko
1st place WCCT 1972-5
[fen]6r1/P1p5/2b4B/p5p1/k2P4/1R3p1r/p2p2Pb/K2B1R2 w - - 0 1[/fen]
White mates in 6

Your only hint (see GP? I give them 😉) is "windmill".

nice puzzle thanks, think i.ve got it...

Originally posted by rookorbycrook
when the word windmill is mentioned.... is it referring to the pieces that you move say the pawn on g2 then the rook so infact you are going round like a windmill? its all good fun enjoyed this tactical puzzle 🙂

I don't know what the "windmill" refers to in this puzzle. To me white's rook reminds me more of those "pendulun axes" as it swings back and forth keeping the black king from passing. The following puzzle is what I could call a windmill as the queen goes around like the blades of a windmill:

No, a windmill, see saw, Väderkvarn is a series of discovered checks almost always by a rook and bishop combination.

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
No, a windmill, see saw, Väderkvarn is a series of discovered checks almost always by a rook and bishop combination.

I might go with seesaw, but I don't see anything that reminds me of a windmill in it. 😏

Both Windmill and See-Saw are accepted as the same tactic.
I prefer See-Saw.

I can see the Windmill resemblance in the position RJ posted but that type
of circling maneuver in that position is called a 'Queen's Wheel.'
(I think Windmill would be better and then we would not have two standard
names for the same type of tactical shot.)

There is a famous Capablanca game (er...it's that famous I cannot recall who
he did it against or when.) Capa wins with a Knight's Wheel.
My three Capa books are sitting 15 feet away but If I start looking I'll only
start playing over a few games.

I have promised myself to watch back to back the B/W version and the modern
version of 'The Day The Earth Stood Still.' and that is what I'm now off to go and do.

EDIT:

Found it.

Capablanca - Yates, New York 1924