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Capture the defender Chess Puzzles

Search 49,500 locally indexed real-game positions, narrow them by motif, difficulty or rating, then play each stored tactical line directly on the board without an upstream connection.

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

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24 shown from 49500 locally materialized records.

Showing 1–24 of 313 matching records

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Puzzle 0QLm2

Rating 876 advantagecapturingDefenderdiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 05GU4

Rating 898 capturingDefendercrushingkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 05mhB

Rating 901 advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Puzzle 0BCoD

Rating 944 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0EYiI

Rating 946 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Gj4x

Rating 950 advantagecapturingDefendermaster
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Puzzle 0AGou

Rating 960 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0IcWT

Rating 1000 capturingDefendercrushingopening
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Puzzle 0I2G2

Rating 1006 capturingDefendercrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0IQWZ

Rating 1033 advantagecapturingDefenderfork
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Puzzle 09FRI

Rating 1096 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 02OZP

Rating 1129 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0KIDF

Rating 1162 advantagecapturingDefenderintermezzo
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Puzzle 01lh4

Rating 1168 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Htfz

Rating 1177 advantagecapturingDefenderdeflection
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Puzzle 0NIpL

Rating 1177 advantagecapturingDefenderkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0OBgc

Rating 1179 capturingDefendercrushingfork
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Puzzle 03WiF

Rating 1185 advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Puzzle 01q7V

Rating 1191 advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Puzzle 0JBHG

Rating 1198 capturingDefendercrushingopening
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Puzzle 0ED2b

Rating 1201 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0PN3d

Rating 1215 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 00Bp0

Rating 1220 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Pmj8

Rating 1222 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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