Chess - The Defender's Distraction
Back then when there used to be the infamous chapter titled Destroying the Defender which many-a-times attacks the position with a forthcoming advantage to the opponent needing to be dealt with. Why not then just to title the alternative as distracting the defending piece(s) instead? Surely the idea of getting the defender away in either case goes a long way into strategic routine every other time the next game got better. Here's a brief example of an early launch of attack that may not have been handled the most efficient way, working aplenty to my advantage of getting the defending piece away from the action, yet evidently there to watch the chaos being unable to wage in for countermeasure.
Let's head back to where the position could have happened differently. Of course, there didn't seem like much in stock, did there?
Given below is an endgame position I devised entirely out of the game above. It may not have necessarily played out in the actual game, yet the characteristics of this endgame position alone kept me occupied in speculation.
Here I'm a piece up and a pawn down, my rook is apparently checking the king awaiting the decision of moving up or down the board, while also preventing white's checkmating move of Ra7#.
Somehow the position above paved way for an implementation such as this, where the white king looks to be in full form having rendered my king unable to move, where I move my rook over to c3 while my bishop does the job of guarding the a7 mate. I've successfully rendered the white king unless as even Kd7 results in a blundered position trap of knight fork.
