Deflection Tactics: The Art of Maneuvering Your Opponent

Deflection Chess Resources

Deflection Tactics - The Key to Unlocking Powerful Moves

Description: Is your opponent's piece hindering your attack? Deflection tactics can help! This archive delves into the art of maneuvering your opponent's pieces away from strategic squares, creating pathways for your winning threats.

Explore resources that explain the concept, provide practice puzzles, and showcase deflection in real chess games.

Deflection vs. Decoy: What's the Difference?

It's important to distinguish deflection from another tactic called a decoy. While both involve manipulating your opponent's pieces, they achieve this in different ways:

• Deflection: You lure the opponent's piece away from a good square, typically where it defends something important.
• Decoy: You lure the opponent's piece to a bad square, where it becomes vulnerable or weakens their position.

Deflection focuses on removing a defender, while a decoy aims to trap or misplace an enemy piece.

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Deflection Chess Articles

• Deflection Lesson - From ChessGuru.net 
  
  
• Deflection - Chess.com Explanation w/ example 
  
  
• Deflection: How To Use The Deflection Tactic in Chess - Chess Journal Article
  
  
• ATTRACTION AND DEFLECTION – CHESS TACTICAL PATTERNS - PawnBreak w/ example problems

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Deflection LiChess Studies

LiChess Deflection Practice Page - 10 Puzzles

Deflection and Decoy: - 17 Chapter Study - Really Well Done

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Deflection Puzzles

Rook Deflection Lessons -  6 Puzzles

Chess Quiz - Problems 5,6,7 All use Deflection as a solution (Answers at bottom of page) 

LiChess Puzzle Themes

• Deflection Puzzles  - 166,000 Puzzles ( Can set difficulty - 5 Settings)

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Games Databases

OTB Games with Deflection Tactic Used - 21 Games

31 Chess Puzzles with Deflection 

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Deflection Chess Video Lessons: Sharpen Your Tactics

This curated list features video lessons for all skill levels:

Winning more Games with the Deflection Tactic | Chess Tactics | Improver Level | IM Kostya Kavutskiy - 9 Min - In this series, you will learn more advanced tactical patterns and understand what it’s all about deflection,

Decoy vs Deflection | Chess tactics with National Master Robert Ramirez - 9 Min - In this lesson, we will be talking about decoys and deflections. If you do not know the difference between the two, stay tuned because you have a lot to learn.

Chess Tactics - Deflection - 20 Min - IM Asof Givon - This is one of the video lessons from the chess course "Winning Tactical Patterns" itself, Deflection.  28 DAYS TO BETTER CHESS TACTICS - DAY 17 - DEFLECTION! - 25 Min -  I cover more advanced tactics and this video covers DEFLECTION! I cover the method to break down very complicated chess positions. I go really deep in this lesson to lay a foundation for further practice of more complicated chess puzzles and positions. Actively solving tactical positions The Greatest Deflection Ever in Chess - 3Min A chess puzzle with a BRILLIANT deflection tactic - 3 Min

NM Nelson Lopez
Some mind-blowing bishop deflection tactics to enjoy! Mitrofanov's deflections are some of the most amazing chess tactics you will ever see. There are bishop deflections, knight deflections, rook deflections, and queen deflections.

8 Amazing Bishop Deflection Tactics In REAL GAMES! 😲 - 20 Min 

7 Amazing Knight Deflection Tactics From REAL GAMES!  - 21 Min 
8 Examples of Deflection Tactics In Chess - 13 Min
A Stunning Composed Chess Problem - Mitrofanov's Deflection - 10 Min -  Mitrofanov's Deflection is an amazing tactical motive to deflect a piece from one square to another.
Mitrofanov's Deflection in REAL GAMES - 13 Min