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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 1465–1488 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0H6MP

Rating 1821 advancedPawnmatemateIn1
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Puzzle 0Ms1L

Rating 1822 attractionkingsideAttackmate
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Puzzle 0UMGD

Rating 1822 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 00GiQ

Rating 1823 attractioncrushingdiscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 00zqB

Rating 1823 matemateIn1middlegame
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Puzzle 03McI

Rating 1823 attackingF2F7attractioncrushing
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Puzzle 0RK9N

Rating 1823 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 06CLu

Rating 1824 attackingF2F7longmate
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Puzzle 0Dgzz

Rating 1824 attractionendgamemate
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Puzzle 0DR0L

Rating 1824 kingsideAttacklongmate
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Puzzle 03rTq

Rating 1825 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 06DfC

Rating 1825 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0BCru

Rating 1826 crushingkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0Vj9E

Rating 1826 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 084JF

Rating 1828 clearancecrushinglong
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Puzzle 03leN

Rating 1829 crushingdeflectionlong
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Puzzle 02xa0

Rating 1830 crushingforkmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0PbNH

Rating 1830 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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