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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 2689–2712 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 1UhfO

Rating 2457 advantageattractiondeflection
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Puzzle 1Htmx

Rating 2459 advantagekingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0xj7r

Rating 2461 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 1DH1o

Rating 2461 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 1MIt4

Rating 2461 attractioncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 002e8

Rating 2463 crushingdefensiveMovemaster
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Puzzle 10SMv

Rating 2463 advantageintermezzomiddlegame
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Puzzle 1YyFf

Rating 2463 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 1MoMz

Rating 2464 crushingkingsideAttackmaster
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Puzzle 0p4iI

Rating 2468 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0N2xZ

Rating 2470 advantagedefensiveMovelong
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Puzzle 0sN8l

Rating 2470 advantagedeflectionmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0CJD1

Rating 2471 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0avBa

Rating 2472 advantageattackingF2F7opening
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