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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 121–144 of 313 matching records

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Puzzle 0D9xU

Rating 1638 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 06Zmc

Rating 1643 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0JTrY

Rating 1650 advantagecapturingDefenderintermezzo
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Puzzle 0He6Y

Rating 1656 advantagecapturingDefenderkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0IBNE

Rating 1657 capturingDefendercrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0U4nP

Rating 1658 advantagecapturingDefenderdiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 0Glte

Rating 1663 capturingDefendercrushinglong
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Puzzle 0QNn0

Rating 1664 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 08MjH

Rating 1666 capturingDefendercrushingkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 07NOA

Rating 1672 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 05uc2

Rating 1674 advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Puzzle 08V9Z

Rating 1676 advantagecapturingDefendermaster
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Puzzle 0DyxW

Rating 1681 advantageattractioncapturingDefender
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Puzzle 0BSJR

Rating 1687 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 0JS5q

Rating 1688 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0DwKm

Rating 1698 advantagecapturingDefenderintermezzo
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Puzzle 0R6Ua

Rating 1706 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 02yVL

Rating 1713 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 0FQBp

Rating 1714 capturingDefendercrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0FXMB

Rating 1715 advantagecapturingDefendermaster
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Puzzle 07tL1

Rating 1717 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 0NRcg

Rating 1718 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 03HWv

Rating 1724 advantagecapturingDefenderfork
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Puzzle 0GC0I

Rating 1739 advancedPawncapturingDefendercrushing
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