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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 361–384 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0PEGT

Rating 1211 advantagekingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0AwxP

Rating 1214 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 05qAk

Rating 1218 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Esux

Rating 1218 epauletteMatematemateIn1
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Puzzle 09sh1

Rating 1219 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0RZEV

Rating 1222 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0NCRv

Rating 1224 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0L1ky

Rating 1229 crushingdiscoveredAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0SXq0

Rating 1235 advantagediscoveredAttackexposedKing
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