Talk:Deflection (chess)

3rd example pulled

	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h
8									8
7									7
6									6
5									5
4									4
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h

White's knight protecting his king cannot be moved because of Black's bishop. White deflects Black's bishop by playing the pawn to c4 to prevent mate.

This doesn't really seem like an example of deflection, to me, as the bishop can just back up a space and still continue to attack the knight. It's a good move, as it allows the pawn to be advanced without losing a turn, but it's not deflection:

I don't even see how Black CAN mate.

|haosys| —Preceding undated comment added 22:00, 13 September 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Black can mate because if White moves his bishop, ...Bxb7# happens, because Black's king defends the bishop and b8 and White's a7-pawn is in the way. But the concept of it being a deflection is bogus-c4 is NOT the only move and in fact, advancing the b-pawn also works.Jasper Deng (talk) 03:44, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]