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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 1393–1416 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0G2T0

Rating 1779 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0QQkv

Rating 1779 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 09nam

Rating 1781 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0Lt8m

Rating 1781 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0FNHK

Rating 1782 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 00XXM

Rating 1783 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 01273

Rating 1787 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0AnM7

Rating 1787 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0CRIi

Rating 1788 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0KZ3z

Rating 1789 advantagekingsideAttackopening
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Puzzle 0S7LJ

Rating 1789 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0UimI

Rating 1790 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 080rT

Rating 1791 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0MGUh

Rating 1791 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 03ZZq

Rating 1792 advantageattractionendgame
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Puzzle 0OspT

Rating 1792 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0MKtC

Rating 1794 advantagedefensiveMovelong
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