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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 1201–1224 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0LXK6

Rating 1673 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0HMSY

Rating 1675 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Iecf

Rating 1675 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0L0XG

Rating 1675 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 051tR

Rating 1676 advantageattractionendgame
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Puzzle 05w8f

Rating 1676 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0UGTC

Rating 1676 crushingdefensiveMovelong
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Puzzle 0BYnD

Rating 1679 attractioncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0Bi0B

Rating 1680 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 02yan

Rating 1681 advantagedefensiveMovelong
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Puzzle 00umX

Rating 1682 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 05BC4

Rating 1682 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0AMpA

Rating 1682 crushingdiscoveredAttackopening
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Puzzle 0Tm0P

Rating 1682 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0LVzP

Rating 1683 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0RXeV

Rating 1683 advantagelongmiddlegame
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