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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 1081–1104 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0KUWY

Rating 1612 matemateIn1middlegame
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Puzzle 0KMRI

Rating 1614 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 03Myn

Rating 1615 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 00O9Z

Rating 1616 backRankMatedeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 0HYCR

Rating 1616 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0I43C

Rating 1616 crushingkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0Bmrc

Rating 1618 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Qnsv

Rating 1618 advantagekingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0UWxQ

Rating 1618 attractioncrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 07faR

Rating 1619 matemateIn1middlegame
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Puzzle 0BD30

Rating 1619 advantagekingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0MPdL

Rating 1621 deflectionkingsideAttackmate
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Puzzle 0QhL0

Rating 1621 crushingexposedKingkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0CuzU

Rating 1622 advantagekingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 00sKo

Rating 1623 advantageattractionlong
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Puzzle 04972

Rating 1623 advantageintermezzoopening
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Puzzle 01bS3

Rating 1624 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 06FJr

Rating 1625 crushingdiscoveredAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 09BVh

Rating 1626 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0Iaiq

Rating 1626 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0MiQS

Rating 1626 crushingendgamekingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0SdBM

Rating 1626 advantagedeflectionfork
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More puzzle themes: Advanced pawn · Attacks on f2 / f7 · Attraction · Back-rank mate · Bishop endgame tactics · Capture the defender · Clearance · Defensive move · Deflection · Discovered attack · All themes