Removing the Defender
A tactic that eliminates or diverts the piece guarding a target, clearing the way to win material or deliver an attack.
This can be done by capturing the defending piece outright or by using a decoy or deflection to lure it away from its defensive duty.
Etymology
This is a descriptive English tactical label with no traceable coinage, and it competes with two equally common synonyms. Wikipedia treats undermining as the head term, opening its article with the statement that undermining is also known as removal of the guard, or removing the defender. Wikipedia's chess glossary likewise files the idea under undermining, defined as a tactic also known as removal of the guard in which a defensive piece is captured, leaving one of the opponent's pieces undefended or underdefended. Neither source gives a date, an inventor, or a language of origin for any of the three names. Kramnik-Topalov, Linares 2004 is offered by Wikipedia as an illustrative example, but only as an example of the tactic, not as its first occurrence.
First documented: n.a. — n.a.
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