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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 1153–1176 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0L13p

Rating 1654 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0M90o

Rating 1654 attackingF2F7matemateIn2
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Puzzle 03xhx

Rating 1655 advantagedeflectionkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0CM57

Rating 1655 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0HdZs

Rating 1655 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0AatC

Rating 1656 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0K8w4

Rating 1656 advantageendgamemaster
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Puzzle 00eWz

Rating 1657 advantageclearancemaster
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Puzzle 0Fmi4

Rating 1657 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Hzfu

Rating 1657 clearancecrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0Kdmt

Rating 1657 advantagemasteropening
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Puzzle 04uOg

Rating 1659 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0ATQO

Rating 1659 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0QPm2

Rating 1659 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0RYPm

Rating 1659 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0CCBh

Rating 1660 crushingkingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0DTiK

Rating 1660 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0FxBz

Rating 1660 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0UyAB

Rating 1660 crushingdeflectionlong
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Puzzle 0EIYp

Rating 1661 advantagelongmiddlegame
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