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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.

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Puzzle 0BYfa

Rating 1876 advantageattractioncapturingDefender
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Puzzle 0FRJu

Rating 1877 advantagecapturingDefenderdiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 0LsBD

Rating 1878 capturingDefendercrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0XdiL

Rating 1883 attractioncapturingDefendercrushing
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Puzzle 06G2U

Rating 1888 advantagecapturingDefenderdiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 0FE9n

Rating 1898 advantagecapturingDefendercastling
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Puzzle 0I3Jn

Rating 1909 capturingDefendercrushingdiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 0Nyir

Rating 1913 advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Puzzle 0MjGS

Rating 1915 capturingDefendercrushingintermezzo
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Puzzle 043Zg

Rating 1916 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0BsuS

Rating 1925 capturingDefendercrushingkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0WzTD

Rating 1926 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 02lp0

Rating 1944 advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Puzzle 0WodW

Rating 1945 capturingDefendercrushinglong
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Puzzle 05LeR

Rating 1947 capturingDefendercrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 086bC

Rating 1947 advantagecapturingDefenderdeflection
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Puzzle 07k0u

Rating 1950 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 06mWO

Rating 1951 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Kpqu

Rating 1957 advantagecapturingDefenderfork
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Puzzle 0NYfj

Rating 1962 advantagecapturingDefenderendgame
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Puzzle 0GqFM

Rating 1965 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 02psv

Rating 1982 advantagecapturingDefenderdiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 0F3zR

Rating 1987 advantagecapturingDefenderkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0PJ1d

Rating 1995 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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