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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 3265–3288 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 1FW6A

Rating 2765 advancedPawncrushingexposedKing
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Puzzle 2FePh

Rating 2765 crushingexposedKingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 1rQVB

Rating 2766 advantageendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 2Dhmh

Rating 2766 crushingdefensiveMovelong
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Puzzle 2JKmE

Rating 2766 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 1r4Wz

Rating 2767 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0cyXl

Rating 2768 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0WWAS

Rating 2770 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 1ceW5

Rating 2770 advancedPawnclearancecrushing
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Puzzle 2DIQw

Rating 2771 advancedPawnattractioncrushing
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Puzzle 0ZaRg

Rating 2772 advantagediscoveredAttacklong
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Puzzle 1O9Bj

Rating 2772 advantageclearancekingsideAttack
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Puzzle 2Atij

Rating 2772 advantagedefensiveMovelong
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Puzzle 0J4kO

Rating 2774 advantageexposedKingfork
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Puzzle 25sfi

Rating 2776 crushingdiscoveredAttackdiscoveredCheck
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