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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 985–1008 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0JQWE

Rating 1567 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 01u1v

Rating 1569 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 01VXI

Rating 1569 attractioncrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0PB8q

Rating 1571 attractioncrushingfork
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Puzzle 0FWxF

Rating 1572 crushingdiscoveredAttacklong
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Puzzle 0Bwxu

Rating 1574 crushingkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0Fo0d

Rating 1574 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0NLRX

Rating 1574 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0ND08

Rating 1575 advantagecapturingDefenderkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 076PM

Rating 1576 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0J6wO

Rating 1577 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Ntyt

Rating 1578 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0OVsj

Rating 1578 advantagecapturingDefenderintermezzo
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