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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 1057–1080 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0HplY

Rating 1603 crushingkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0Rhi5

Rating 1604 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0EhP2

Rating 1605 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0TqYF

Rating 1605 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 00oXF

Rating 1607 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0Bdow

Rating 1607 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0ELsQ

Rating 1607 crushingdiscoveredAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 02UDX

Rating 1608 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0P4P2

Rating 1608 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0KGfa

Rating 1609 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 091ja

Rating 1610 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0Eb0n

Rating 1610 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0RkGy

Rating 1610 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 05r44

Rating 1611 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0Rx9m

Rating 1611 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 07b0J

Rating 1612 crushingendgameintermezzo
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