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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Rating 2563
advantageattackingF2F7capturingDefender
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Rating 2567
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Rating 2568
capturingDefendercrushingendgame
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Rating 2581
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Rating 2600
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Rating 2607
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Rating 2608
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Rating 2611
advantagecapturingDefenderdefensiveMove
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Rating 2645
attractioncapturingDefendercrushing
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Rating 2670
capturingDefendercrushinglong
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Rating 2671
capturingDefendercrushingdeflection
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Rating 2675
advancedPawncapturingDefenderclearance
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Rating 2679
capturingDefendercrushingendgame
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Rating 2688
capturingDefendercrushinginterference
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Rating 2694
advantagecapturingDefenderexposedKing
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Rating 2715
attractioncapturingDefendercrushing
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Rating 2735
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Rating 2738
capturingDefendercrushingkingsideAttack
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Rating 2748
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Rating 2751
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Rating 2758
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Rating 2763
capturingDefendercrushingdiscoveredAttack
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Rating 2775
capturingDefenderclearancecrushing
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Rating 2784
capturingDefendercrushingkingsideAttack
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