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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 1105–1128 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0Je8V

Rating 1627 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0NfOI

Rating 1627 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0MuE3

Rating 1628 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 00LNH

Rating 1629 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 03tiQ

Rating 1630 advantagekingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0CGq4

Rating 1630 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0Hgmt

Rating 1630 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0TW1j

Rating 1630 crushingendgamemaster
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Puzzle 0PG9y

Rating 1631 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0NQWh

Rating 1633 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0TuhN

Rating 1633 advantageclearancedeflection
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Puzzle 0DzMw

Rating 1635 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0MgjV

Rating 1635 advantageclearancekingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0FsU4

Rating 1636 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0S0pF

Rating 1636 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0NWpZ

Rating 1637 kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
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Puzzle 0PbHo

Rating 1637 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0R73h

Rating 1640 crushingdiscoveredAttacklong
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Puzzle 00XZR

Rating 1641 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 06Z0G

Rating 1641 crushingmiddlegamepin
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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