Undefended in a sentence

The queen is also often used to fork, but since the queen is usually more valuable than the pieces it attacks, this typically gains material only when the pieces attacked are undefended or if one is undefended and the opposing king is checked.

At one point, Clark literally waved off South Carolina guard Raven Johnson as Johnson stood undefended with the ball on the perimeter.

As for the concerns about the waste of time on the trial, I do not consider that my judicial time was wasted on an undefended trial for default judgment on affidavits.

The rookie kicked several undefended field goals to the side during 11-on-11 periods, and a few were flat-out disastrous, failing to even reach the end zone in the air.

The two countries pride themselves on having “the longest undefended border” in the world.

After gathering a large coalition of peoples, Alboin crossed the Julian Alps in 568, entering an almost undefended Italy.

Furneaux, pp. 54–55 As the garrison was too small to properly defend all the existing works in area, Mount Defiance was left undefended.

Grant's command was too scattered and exhausted to undertake an assault against Spotsylvania Court House on May 14, which was unfortunate because Lee had left it practically undefended for most of the day.

He ordered all bridges across the Tiber cut, reportedly on the counsel of the gods, Jones, 71. and left the rest of central Italy undefended; Constantine secured that region's support without challenge.

If a player wants to force an exchange of queens, forking the opposing queen and king (or an undefended piece) with a protected queen can be useful.

In queenside castling, the king is placed closer to the center and the pawn on the a- file is undefended; the king is thus often moved to the b-file to defend the a-pawn and to move the king away from the center of the board.

Less than one year before his death Kipling gave a speech (titled "An Undefended Island") to The Royal Society of St George on 6 May 1935 warning of the danger which Nazi Germany posed to Britain.

On the front line, soldiers learned from a sympathiser inside the walls that the National Guard had withdrawn from one section of the city wall at Point-du-Jour, and the fortifications were undefended.

Similarly, if one spots undefended enemy pieces, one should immediately take advantage of those pieces' weakness.

The Chinese women were undefended, their menfolk powerless or absent.

The Romans were thus decoyed and the Carthaginians slipped through the undefended pass with all their baggage train.

The strategic importance of the opposite bank of Popolopen Creek was quickly realized, as it was an elevated cliff terrace with a full view of the Fort Montgomery site and could not be left undefended.

Two armoured brigades in the meantime, under Avraham Yoffe, slipped across the border through sandy wastes that Egypt had left undefended because they were considered impassable.

When the Spanish fleet appeared off the English coast during the 3rd Spanish Armada in the Autumn of 1597 panic then ensued because the English fleet had been far out to sea with the coast virtually undefended.