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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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More puzzle themes: Advanced pawn · Attacks on f2 / f7 · Attraction · Back-rank mate · Bishop endgame tactics · Clearance · Defensive move · Deflection · Discovered attack · Discovered check · All themes

Capture the defender Chess Puzzles

What is a capture the defender?

How to spot it

What this set trains

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