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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 49–72 of 313 matching records

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Puzzle 0RcP9

Rating 1337 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0IrKn

Rating 1339 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Sws0

Rating 1341 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 0PrZM

Rating 1342 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 028i6

Rating 1346 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0GKJF

Rating 1350 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0BxdP

Rating 1359 advantagecapturingDefenderfork
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Puzzle 01U3J

Rating 1363 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 01o3H

Rating 1364 attractioncapturingDefendercrushing
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Puzzle 0KkNI

Rating 1369 advantagecapturingDefenderdeflection
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Puzzle 0Hnar

Rating 1383 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Oe35

Rating 1387 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0CaIb

Rating 1395 advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Puzzle 0HD43

Rating 1398 capturingDefendercrushinglong
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Puzzle 0NLGK

Rating 1399 advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Puzzle 0BjuX

Rating 1401 capturingDefendercrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0JmcJ

Rating 1401 advantagecapturingDefenderintermezzo
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Puzzle 01XK2

Rating 1409 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0EXhU

Rating 1415 advantageattractioncapturingDefender
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Puzzle 06fMQ

Rating 1417 advantagecapturingDefenderenPassant
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Puzzle 0ANbq

Rating 1417 advantagecapturingDefendermaster
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Puzzle 0HIyU

Rating 1418 advantageattractioncapturingDefender
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Puzzle 05DNW

Rating 1424 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 09AlL

Rating 1432 advantagecapturingDefendermaster
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