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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 1249–1272 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0FiZn

Rating 1696 matemateIn1middlegame
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Puzzle 03vcU

Rating 1697 advantagedefensiveMovelong
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Puzzle 05pYW

Rating 1697 matemateIn1middlegame
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Puzzle 03Pyc

Rating 1698 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 03FqH

Rating 1701 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0SsK5

Rating 1701 advantagekingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0MQtT

Rating 1702 attractionkingsideAttackmate
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Puzzle 05oer

Rating 1703 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 08FkA

Rating 1704 advantagekingsideAttackmaster
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Puzzle 0PgMP

Rating 1704 advantagediscoveredAttackmaster
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Puzzle 03iTQ

Rating 1705 crushingdiscoveredAttackfork
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Puzzle 0QTAc

Rating 1705 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0MekL

Rating 1706 matemateIn1middlegame
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Puzzle 0Qhn8

Rating 1706 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0FUU2

Rating 1708 clearancecrushingendgame
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Puzzle 07dRY

Rating 1709 crushinghangingPiecelong
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Puzzle 0E2hf

Rating 1709 attractioncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0LkKx

Rating 1709 advantageattractionclearance
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Puzzle 0NNUu

Rating 1709 advantagedefensiveMovelong
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Puzzle 00Ueq

Rating 1710 attractionkingsideAttackmaster
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Puzzle 0FsVo

Rating 1710 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0Qof6

Rating 1710 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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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