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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advantagecapturingDefenderintermezzo
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Rating 2247
advantagecapturingDefenderfork
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Rating 2256
bishopEndgamecapturingDefendercrushing
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Rating 2256
advantagecapturingDefendermaster
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Rating 2262
capturingDefendercrushingendgame
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Rating 2270
advantagecapturingDefenderkingsideAttack
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Rating 2277
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Rating 2288
advantagecapturingDefenderinterference
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Rating 2298
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Rating 2310
capturingDefendercrushingkingsideAttack
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Rating 2319
capturingDefendercrushingendgame
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Rating 2321
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Rating 2328
advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Rating 2334
attractioncapturingDefendercrushing
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Rating 2335
capturingDefendercrushingendgame
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Rating 2362
advantagecapturingDefenderdiscoveredAttack
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Rating 2377
capturingDefendercrushingfork
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Rating 2387
advantagecapturingDefenderfork
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Rating 2401
advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Rating 2403
advantagecapturingDefenderfork
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Rating 2404
advancedPawnadvantagecapturingDefender
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Rating 2405
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Rating 2408
capturingDefendercrushinglong
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Rating 2413
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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