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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 97–120 of 313 matching records

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Puzzle 08QJS

Rating 1554 attractioncapturingDefendercrushing
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Puzzle 08gKR

Rating 1556 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 030TT

Rating 1557 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Dk99

Rating 1557 advantagecapturingDefenderdiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 0EfGN

Rating 1565 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 0EG64

Rating 1565 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0JZDR

Rating 1572 advantagecapturingDefenderdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0ND08

Rating 1575 advantagecapturingDefenderkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0BhOT

Rating 1576 capturingDefendercrushingfork
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Puzzle 0OVsj

Rating 1578 advantagecapturingDefenderintermezzo
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Puzzle 0JqNZ

Rating 1583 advantagecapturingDefenderopening
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Puzzle 0FjCY

Rating 1585 advantagecapturingDefenderkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0IwjX

Rating 1586 advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Puzzle 07Qqb

Rating 1594 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0APo0

Rating 1598 advantagecapturingDefenderkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0PIQ2

Rating 1606 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0KunK

Rating 1611 advantagecapturingDefenderfork
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Puzzle 07tvG

Rating 1612 advantagecapturingDefendermaster
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Puzzle 0ET7J

Rating 1612 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 097Dt

Rating 1613 advantagecapturingDefenderintermezzo
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Puzzle 0R4YX

Rating 1617 advantagecapturingDefenderdiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 0MwUM

Rating 1619 advantageattractioncapturingDefender
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Puzzle 0Dwat

Rating 1620 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0AA40

Rating 1622 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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