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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 3289–3312 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0swr7

Rating 2777 advantageintermezzokingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0TED7

Rating 2777 clearancecrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 1iZrl

Rating 2777 collinearMovecrushingexposedKing
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Puzzle 1a5k2

Rating 2778 advantagekingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 1R8xl

Rating 2779 advancedPawnadvantagedefensiveMove
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Puzzle 03TjG

Rating 2781 crushingdeflectiondiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 06UgW

Rating 2782 advantageexposedKingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0gYBk

Rating 2783 crushingdefensiveMovemiddlegame
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Puzzle 2Mzym

Rating 2783 advantageattractiondeflection
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Puzzle 1aNgs

Rating 2784 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0T2KR

Rating 2785 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0AMmn

Rating 2787 advancedPawncrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 2BrEW

Rating 2787 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 2NSUO

Rating 2789 collinearMovecrushingexposedKing
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Puzzle 1Uh3w

Rating 2790 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 23JyO

Rating 2791 advantageexposedKingfork
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