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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 193–216 of 313 matching records

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Puzzle 03SUf

Rating 1997 capturingDefendercrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 0CFOP

Rating 2000 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 0g5z0

Rating 2008 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0QtBg

Rating 2009 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 0Hogn

Rating 2012 advantagecapturingDefenderdiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 0MbEu

Rating 2014 advantagecapturingDefendermaster
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Puzzle 0G6lh

Rating 2019 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0GCVv

Rating 2019 attractioncapturingDefendercrushing
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Puzzle 0G065

Rating 2021 capturingDefendercrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0c4if

Rating 2024 capturingDefendercrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 0I2wk

Rating 2025 capturingDefendercrushinglong
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Puzzle 04JEF

Rating 2027 advantagecapturingDefenderdiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 0W9vO

Rating 2055 capturingDefendercrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 057vk

Rating 2058 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0B0FE

Rating 2082 advantagecapturingDefenderfork
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Puzzle 06fd1

Rating 2092 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0bfKC

Rating 2096 capturingDefendercrushingdiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 0KjJp

Rating 2097 attractioncapturingDefendercrushing
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Puzzle 0AR4F

Rating 2101 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 0Kn9J

Rating 2108 advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0ZMHe

Rating 2114 capturingDefendercrushingmaster
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Puzzle 0Oyb8

Rating 2120 advantagecapturingDefenderdeflection
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Puzzle 0ZyJO

Rating 2132 advantageattractioncapturingDefender
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Puzzle 0e5Kg

Rating 2133 advancedPawncapturingDefendercrushing
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