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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 625–648 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0AmP4

Rating 1372 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0QFzC

Rating 1372 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 096Lr

Rating 1374 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0PR1u

Rating 1374 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 09XYz

Rating 1375 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0Hy93

Rating 1375 clearancecrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0F5pl

Rating 1376 advantageendgamemaster
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Puzzle 0P6qT

Rating 1376 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0HIMn

Rating 1377 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0EYJ9

Rating 1378 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0JKWC

Rating 1378 advantagediscoveredAttackdiscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 0CSLk

Rating 1379 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0BoaI

Rating 1383 advantagelongmiddlegame
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