← Puzzle themes

Deflection puzzles

Deflection drags a defender away from the post it holds. A piece cannot do two jobs at once: forced to answer a threat elsewhere, it abandons the square that mattered.

80 puzzles available · average rating 1755 · range 978–2570.

Sprint this theme (10 puzzles)

a8b7c6d5e4f3g2h1

#cBBYL rating 1436

Solve this puzzle
a8b7c6d5e4f3g2h1

#RBz6q rating 1240

Solve this puzzle
a8b7c6d5e4f3g2h1

#VYAx4 rating 1697

Solve this puzzle
a8b7c6d5e4f3g2h1

#8J9vQ rating 2000

Solve this puzzle
a8b7c6d5e4f3g2h1

#jzz7J rating 1789

Solve this puzzle
a8b7c6d5e4f3g2h1

#IwEx6 rating 2071

Solve this puzzle
a8b7c6d5e4f3g2h1

#Icgkv rating 1550

Solve this puzzle
a8b7c6d5e4f3g2h1

#z2Ixf rating 2041

Solve this puzzle
a8b7c6d5e4f3g2h1

#zup8s rating 1502

Solve this puzzle
a8b7c6d5e4f3g2h1

#8QoyJ rating 1917

Solve this puzzle
a8b7c6d5e4f3g2h1

#taPTY rating 1217

Solve this puzzle
a8b7c6d5e4f3g2h1

#eqinr rating 2336

Solve this puzzle

Train this theme in the puzzle trainer →