313 real-game puzzles in this collection
What is a capture the defender?
This motif removes the guard by taking it. Once the defender is captured — often with a small material investment — the piece or square it protected falls.
How to spot it
Work backwards from the target: what defends it? Can that defender be taken, even at a small loss? Sum the whole sequence before judging the first capture.
What this set trains
These sets teach sequence accounting — evaluating a series of exchanges by its final position, not its first move.
Foundation: 20Developing: 91Challenging: 82Advanced: 120
foundation
Rating 876
advantagecapturingDefenderdiscoveredAttack
foundation
Rating 898
capturingDefendercrushingkingsideAttack
foundation
Rating 901
advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
foundation
Rating 944
capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
foundation
Rating 946
capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
foundation
Rating 950
advantagecapturingDefendermaster
foundation
Rating 960
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
foundation
Rating 1000
capturingDefendercrushingopening
foundation
Rating 1006
capturingDefendercrushingendgame
foundation
Rating 1033
advantagecapturingDefenderfork
foundation
Rating 1096
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
foundation
Rating 1129
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
foundation
Rating 1162
advantagecapturingDefenderintermezzo
foundation
Rating 1168
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
foundation
Rating 1177
advantagecapturingDefenderdeflection
foundation
Rating 1177
advantagecapturingDefenderkingsideAttack
foundation
Rating 1179
capturingDefendercrushingfork
foundation
Rating 1185
advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
foundation
Rating 1191
advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
foundation
Rating 1198
capturingDefendercrushingopening
developing
Rating 1201
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
developing
Rating 1215
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
developing
Rating 1220
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
developing
Rating 1222
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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