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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 2809–2832 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 01p6X

Rating 2520 crushingexposedKingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 1ZSch

Rating 2520 advantagediscoveredAttacklong
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Puzzle 03DMs

Rating 2521 crushingkingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 1RaaX

Rating 2521 crushingdefensiveMoveexposedKing
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Puzzle 1E8qD

Rating 2522 crushingdeflectionexposedKing
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Puzzle 0oYdb

Rating 2523 advancedPawnadvantageendgame
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Puzzle 0gisQ

Rating 2525 attractioncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 163VV

Rating 2526 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 1JCJ8

Rating 2526 crushingdefensiveMovemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0zXpq

Rating 2527 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0nH5X

Rating 2529 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0ZN27

Rating 2534 attackingF2F7crushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 1J2wF

Rating 2534 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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