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 1337
capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Rating 1339
capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Rating 1341
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Rating 1342
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Rating 1346
capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Rating 1350
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Rating 1359
advantagecapturingDefenderfork
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Rating 1363
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Rating 1364
attractioncapturingDefendercrushing
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Rating 1369
advantagecapturingDefenderdeflection
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Rating 1383
capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Rating 1387
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Rating 1395
advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Rating 1398
capturingDefendercrushinglong
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Rating 1399
advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Rating 1401
capturingDefendercrushingendgame
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Rating 1401
advantagecapturingDefenderintermezzo
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Rating 1409
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Rating 1415
advantageattractioncapturingDefender
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Rating 1417
advantagecapturingDefenderenPassant
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Rating 1417
advantagecapturingDefendermaster
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Rating 1418
advantageattractioncapturingDefender
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Rating 1424
capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Rating 1432
advantagecapturingDefendermaster
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