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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 2737–2760 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0mwSQ

Rating 2484 crushingdefensiveMovemaster
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Puzzle 1dMpC

Rating 2484 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 19mw3

Rating 2485 advantagedefensiveMovemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0VNOf

Rating 2487 advantagecastlingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 1ZuqR

Rating 2488 advancedPawnadvantageendgame
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Puzzle 0ji1w

Rating 2489 crushingkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0gWYb

Rating 2491 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 0Lsbh

Rating 2491 crushingdiscoveredAttackdiscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 1DLtF

Rating 2491 crushingkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 169V2

Rating 2492 advantagedefensiveMovemaster
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Puzzle 18B3W

Rating 2492 advancedPawnadvantageexposedKing
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