Deflection


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A **Deflection** is a chess tactic that forces an opposing piece (the defender) to give up the defence of an important square or line, exposing the king or a valuable piece. If the defender is member of one or more balanced defend and attack sets with same number of attacks and defends of respective critical squares, a deflection sacrifice, often attacking the defender by putting a piece of the same kind en-prise, might be crushing.

=See also=
 * Combination
 * Decoying
 * Overloading
 * Sacrifice
 * Undermining

=External Links=
 * [|Deflection (chess) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Deflection disambiguation page from Wikipedia]
 * [|Top 10 chess: Tactical Motif II: Deflection]

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