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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 913–936 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0IG2s

Rating 1537 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0MIzo

Rating 1538 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Npku

Rating 1538 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 02qOC

Rating 1539 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 07HDk

Rating 1539 crushingdefensiveMovekingsideAttack
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Puzzle 085Ke

Rating 1539 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0DTt9

Rating 1541 attractioncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0Lu58

Rating 1541 advantagediscoveredAttacklong
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Puzzle 02cv1

Rating 1542 advantagehangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 06aNt

Rating 1542 crushinghangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0GkaR

Rating 1542 crushingexposedKingkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0K4QN

Rating 1543 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0SSYA

Rating 1543 crushingkingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0E7Bi

Rating 1545 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 06vv6

Rating 1546 advantageclearancediscoveredAttack
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