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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 2377–2400 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0M214

Rating 2288 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0AGfC

Rating 2290 crushingdeflectionmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0h5LH

Rating 2291 advantagedeflectionexposedKing
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Puzzle 0EKAK

Rating 2292 discoveredAttackdiscoveredCheckmate
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Puzzle 0lipa

Rating 2292 crushingendgamekingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0YOQy

Rating 2293 crushingdiscoveredAttackdiscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 0uy55

Rating 2294 crushingdiscoveredAttacklong
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Puzzle 0Nuvy

Rating 2295 advantagekingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Q79o

Rating 2296 advantagedefensiveMovemiddlegame
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Puzzle 08Dln

Rating 2299 crushingkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0SNQM

Rating 2299 advantagediscoveredAttacklong
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Puzzle 0xoOF

Rating 2299 advantagediscoveredAttackmiddlegame
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