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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 1369–1392 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0M0Pb

Rating 1768 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0R4UU

Rating 1768 exposedKinglongmaster
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Puzzle 0EdbG

Rating 1769 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0R8se

Rating 1769 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0KGyx

Rating 1770 advantageexposedKingfork
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Puzzle 0T0wy

Rating 1770 attackingF2F7crushingdeflection
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Puzzle 02SQK

Rating 1771 attractionkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0DJM4

Rating 1772 advantageattractionkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0QJrK

Rating 1772 attractionexposedKinglong
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Puzzle 095US

Rating 1773 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0LtGI

Rating 1773 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0NmaH

Rating 1773 attractioncrushinglong
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Puzzle 0MNZC

Rating 1774 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 05L0K

Rating 1775 crushingexposedKinglong
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Puzzle 07Wq3

Rating 1776 crushingmastermasterVsMaster
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Puzzle 0H3be

Rating 1776 advantagecapturingDefenderdeflection
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Puzzle 0Ly2a

Rating 1776 attractioncrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 02BFR

Rating 1777 crushingdefensiveMovemiddlegame
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Puzzle 00rKj

Rating 1779 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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