What’s on the Deflection & Decoy poster
Deflection against Decoy, side by side.
- Deflection: Forces a defender to leave its post
- Deflection: Usually with a capture or a threat
- Deflection: What it was defending then falls
- Deflection: Often a sacrifice
- Decoy: Lures a piece ONTO a specific square
- Decoy: Where it can be forked, pinned or mated
- Decoy: Also usually a sacrifice
- Decoy: The square matters, not the departure
- Deflection is about where a piece leaves. Decoy is about where it arrives. Both usual…
Look for over-worked pieces: any piece doing two defensive jobs is a deflection waiting to happen.
Questions about the Deflection & Decoy poster
- What’s on the Deflection & Decoy poster?
- Deflection against Decoy, side by side. Deflection: Forces a defender to leave its post; Deflection: Usually with a capture or a threat; Deflection: What it was defending then falls; Deflection: Often a sacrifice; Decoy: Lures a piece ONTO a specific square; Decoy: Where it can be forked, pinned or mated; Decoy: Also usually a sacrifice; Decoy: The square matters, not the departure; Deflection is about where a piece leaves. Decoy is about where it arrives. Both usual…. Look for over-worked pieces: any piece doing two defensive jobs is a deflection waiting to happen.
- Who is the Deflection & Decoy poster for?
- Deflection & Decoy belongs to the Chess section rather than to a school year, because games is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning tactics can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Deflection & Decoy poster?
- Deflection pulls a defender away. Decoy lures a piece onto a bad square. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Deflection & Decoy belongs on the wall where that games work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Deflection & Decoy?
- Overloaded Pieces, Back Rank Mate and Calculating sit alongside Deflection & Decoy in the Chess section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Overloaded PiecesBack Rank MateCalculating
- Is the Deflection & Decoy poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Deflection & Decoy downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Chess section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Deflection & Decoy poster print at?
- Deflection & Decoy is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Deflection & Decoy loses nothing.Printing guide
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