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Pin 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.

3322 real-game puzzles in this collection

What is a pin?

A pin freezes an enemy piece on a line because moving it would expose a more valuable piece behind it. An absolute pin, against the king, makes moving the pinned piece illegal; a relative pin merely makes it losing.

How to spot it

Trace every bishop, rook and queen line through enemy pieces toward the king or queen. When two enemy units share a line with your long-range piece, a pin is on the board or one move away.

What this set trains

Pin puzzles teach you to pile pressure on an immobilized target and to notice when a defender that looks solid is actually frozen.

Foundation: 347Developing: 701Challenging: 745Advanced: 1529

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24 shown from 49500 locally materialized records.

Showing 217–240 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 06v4c

Rating 1103 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 08F97

Rating 1103 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 01c3W

Rating 1110 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 02ZJA

Rating 1110 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0LSbq

Rating 1110 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0CbhL

Rating 1112 advantageendgamekingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0D5di

Rating 1114 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0LLaJ

Rating 1115 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0MiBR

Rating 1116 advantageclearanceendgame
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Puzzle 08YNm

Rating 1117 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 07KlL

Rating 1118 advantagedefensiveMovelong
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Puzzle 0NF6P

Rating 1119 advantagemastermiddlegame
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