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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 1177–1200 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0N7Jw

Rating 1661 crushingintermezzokingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0Nk6W

Rating 1661 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 02IqA

Rating 1662 crushingdiscoveredAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0EUWg

Rating 1662 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0Glte

Rating 1663 capturingDefendercrushinglong
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Puzzle 0IVFa

Rating 1663 advantagedefensiveMovehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0IIO6

Rating 1664 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0PQjT

Rating 1666 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0Clb4

Rating 1667 crushingdiscoveredAttackopening
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Puzzle 0GhXV

Rating 1668 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Qgm9

Rating 1668 crushingdiscoveredAttackdiscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 0B9F3

Rating 1671 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0HNeR

Rating 1671 crushingdeflectionmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0HsO6

Rating 1672 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0IGN8

Rating 1672 crushingendgamemaster
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Puzzle 0Oye9

Rating 1672 advantagemastermiddlegame
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