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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 3145–3168 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0eNfW

Rating 2698 crushingdefensiveMovemiddlegame
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Puzzle 1b3nz

Rating 2698 advancedPawncrushingkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 1ZTXr

Rating 2698 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0m2xZ

Rating 2699 crushingdeflectionkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0S6JL

Rating 2699 advantagekingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 276Eb

Rating 2700 advantageclearancekingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0RyaG

Rating 2701 advantagedefensiveMovediscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 09Jue

Rating 2702 advantageattractiondeflection
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Puzzle 1FO3B

Rating 2703 crushingdefensiveMovedeflection
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Puzzle 1xzEX

Rating 2703 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 214tB

Rating 2704 crushingdiscoveredAttackendgame
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Puzzle 1gFas

Rating 2713 attractioncrushingexposedKing
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Puzzle 0sTJL

Rating 2716 crushingexposedKingmiddlegame
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