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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 1225–1248 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 05aMm

Rating 1685 crushingkingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0IOmf

Rating 1685 advantageattackingF2F7attraction
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Puzzle 0GgWC

Rating 1686 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0QJXm

Rating 1686 advantagedeflectionexposedKing
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Puzzle 06LZ3

Rating 1687 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 06ndm

Rating 1688 matemateIn1middlegame
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Puzzle 0DRcf

Rating 1689 advancedPawnkingsideAttackmate
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Puzzle 0JnmG

Rating 1689 advantagekingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0KaxW

Rating 1689 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 07b2Q

Rating 1690 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 07xSs

Rating 1691 advantageclearancelong
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Puzzle 09Qv5

Rating 1691 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0GqGt

Rating 1691 clearancecrushingendgame
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Puzzle 00734

Rating 1692 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0MQI7

Rating 1695 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 02Q8P

Rating 1696 crushingdeflectionlong
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Puzzle 05fac

Rating 1696 crushingmiddlegamepin
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