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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 289–312 of 313 matching records

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Puzzle 0UbOc

Rating 2563 advantageattackingF2F7capturingDefender
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Puzzle 0WzSy

Rating 2567 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 0NXg1

Rating 2568 capturingDefendercrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0BJkQ

Rating 2581 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 20F41

Rating 2600 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 1Bids

Rating 2607 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 1Qod5

Rating 2608 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 0QzrJ

Rating 2611 advantagecapturingDefenderdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 1k2as

Rating 2645 attractioncapturingDefendercrushing
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Puzzle 250A4

Rating 2670 capturingDefendercrushinglong
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Puzzle 0lGPK

Rating 2671 capturingDefendercrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 1UCVV

Rating 2675 advancedPawncapturingDefenderclearance
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Puzzle 1sz5m

Rating 2679 capturingDefendercrushingendgame
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Puzzle 1USE9

Rating 2688 capturingDefendercrushinginterference
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Puzzle 04kdZ

Rating 2694 advantagecapturingDefenderexposedKing
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Puzzle 0qFVM

Rating 2715 attractioncapturingDefendercrushing
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Puzzle 1FrCh

Rating 2735 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 11T1b

Rating 2738 capturingDefendercrushingkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 01dm7

Rating 2748 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 0VkoT

Rating 2751 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0a3zm

Rating 2758 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0y29L

Rating 2763 capturingDefendercrushingdiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 1aNz5

Rating 2775 capturingDefenderclearancecrushing
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Puzzle 1pZbA

Rating 2784 capturingDefendercrushingkingsideAttack
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