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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 1321–1344 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0MF14

Rating 1741 attractionendgamemate
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Puzzle 09r1m

Rating 1742 advantageattractionfork
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Puzzle 09zH0

Rating 1742 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0Nxzm

Rating 1742 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0D4YP

Rating 1743 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0E0QO

Rating 1745 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0GQEp

Rating 1745 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0MuNm

Rating 1745 crushingexposedKinglong
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Puzzle 01UyQ

Rating 1746 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0C1gJ

Rating 1746 advantageintermezzokingsideAttack
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Puzzle 03zt3

Rating 1747 advantageattractionfork
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Puzzle 0GPrH

Rating 1747 advantageclearancelong
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Puzzle 0Nj1h

Rating 1747 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 099YF

Rating 1748 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0BA4p

Rating 1748 crushingexposedKingkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0ACti

Rating 1749 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0JUOU

Rating 1749 advantagemiddlegamepin
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