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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 1561–1584 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0GSTC

Rating 1869 crushingdeflectionkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0V6WR

Rating 1870 crushingdiscoveredAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0R3yI

Rating 1875 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 09x2v

Rating 1876 crushingdiscoveredAttackendgame
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Puzzle 0Q0OU

Rating 1877 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 05bFg

Rating 1878 advantagemastermasterVsMaster
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Puzzle 0OCTi

Rating 1878 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0PFng

Rating 1879 advantagedeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 0OmRR

Rating 1882 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0Y0Y6

Rating 1882 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 08Wvp

Rating 1883 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0SpAl

Rating 1884 crushingexposedKinglong
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Puzzle 013Kj

Rating 1886 advantageclearancedefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0BRDr

Rating 1887 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0GRBd

Rating 1888 attractioncrushingexposedKing
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Puzzle 0MBpK

Rating 1888 advantagekingsideAttackmiddlegame
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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