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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 937–960 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0NYfv

Rating 1547 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0EkwW

Rating 1548 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0PG4y

Rating 1548 advantagedefensiveMovehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0Sduz

Rating 1548 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0HJV5

Rating 1549 advantagekingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0SHxr

Rating 1549 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 07Dg7

Rating 1550 clearanceendgamekingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0BJHH

Rating 1550 advantagediscoveredAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0JWHV

Rating 1551 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0NRLg

Rating 1551 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0CuZ9

Rating 1553 advantageendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 033X8

Rating 1554 crushinghangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 03URI

Rating 1554 kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
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Puzzle 03WTw

Rating 1554 crushingforkmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0DvcD

Rating 1554 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0A8Of

Rating 1556 deflectionkingsideAttackmate
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