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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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Puzzle 0IIUB

Rating 1746 capturingDefendercrushingendgame
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Puzzle 07hR4

Rating 1747 advantagecapturingDefenderdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 022C8

Rating 1761 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 0KjZ3

Rating 1761 advantagecapturingDefenderkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0GNGa

Rating 1771 advancedPawnbishopEndgamecapturingDefender
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Puzzle 0TCLD

Rating 1774 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 03wQI

Rating 1776 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0H3be

Rating 1776 advantagecapturingDefenderdeflection
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Puzzle 01j9y

Rating 1778 advantagecapturingDefenderkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0S8JO

Rating 1778 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 0POfc

Rating 1794 advancedPawncapturingDefendercrushing
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Puzzle 0NMkk

Rating 1798 advantagecapturingDefenderdeflection
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Puzzle 0IYuH

Rating 1799 capturingDefendercrushingkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0HwfC

Rating 1804 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0RlBY

Rating 1818 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 01Tr9

Rating 1819 capturingDefendercrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0Xob5

Rating 1826 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 0EQyU

Rating 1828 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Gd5h

Rating 1828 capturingDefendercrushingdiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 06kDo

Rating 1838 advantagecapturingDefenderintermezzo
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Puzzle 06eSF

Rating 1852 attractioncapturingDefendercrushing
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Puzzle 0XynK

Rating 1856 capturingDefendercrushinglong
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Puzzle 0PDLG

Rating 1862 advantagecapturingDefenderfork
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Puzzle 0Gk7z

Rating 1875 advantageattractioncapturingDefender
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