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
challenging
Rating 1997
capturingDefendercrushingdeflection
advanced
Rating 2000
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
advanced
Rating 2008
capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Rating 2009
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
advanced
Rating 2012
advantagecapturingDefenderdiscoveredAttack
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Rating 2014
advantagecapturingDefendermaster
advanced
Rating 2019
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
advanced
Rating 2019
attractioncapturingDefendercrushing
advanced
Rating 2021
capturingDefendercrushingendgame
advanced
Rating 2024
capturingDefendercrushingdeflection
advanced
Rating 2025
capturingDefendercrushinglong
advanced
Rating 2027
advantagecapturingDefenderdiscoveredAttack
advanced
Rating 2055
capturingDefendercrushingdefensiveMove
advanced
Rating 2058
capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
advanced
Rating 2082
advantagecapturingDefenderfork
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Rating 2092
capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
advanced
Rating 2096
capturingDefendercrushingdiscoveredAttack
advanced
Rating 2097
attractioncapturingDefendercrushing
advanced
Rating 2101
advantagecapturingDefenderlong
advanced
Rating 2108
advantagecapturingDefendermiddlegame
advanced
Rating 2114
capturingDefendercrushingmaster
advanced
Rating 2120
advantagecapturingDefenderdeflection
advanced
Rating 2132
advantageattractioncapturingDefender
advanced
Rating 2133
advancedPawncapturingDefendercrushing
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