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 1446
advantageattractioncapturingDefender
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Rating 1467
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Rating 1467
advantagecapturingDefenderdiscoveredAttack
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Rating 1471
capturingDefendercrushingmaster
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Rating 1471
capturingDefendercrushingkingsideAttack
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Rating 1474
advantagecapturingDefenderintermezzo
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Rating 1475
advantagecapturingDefenderopening
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Rating 1484
capturingDefendercrushingmaster
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Rating 1503
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Rating 1504
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Rating 1505
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Rating 1507
advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Rating 1507
advantagecapturingDefenderopening
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Rating 1516
capturingDefendercrushingendgame
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Rating 1518
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Rating 1531
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Rating 1535
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Rating 1539
advantagecapturingDefenderfork
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Rating 1540
advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Rating 1541
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Rating 1546
advantagecapturingDefenderintermezzo
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Rating 1549
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Rating 1550
advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Rating 1553
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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