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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 1609–1632 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0GdfI

Rating 1903 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0GN3v

Rating 1904 advantagehangingPiecelong
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Puzzle 04lr7

Rating 1905 advantagedefensiveMovekingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0TwGM

Rating 1905 advantageendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0Wkyr

Rating 1906 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0YGrk

Rating 1906 crushingkingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 08gCM

Rating 1907 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0Vjba

Rating 1907 advantagedeflectionmiddlegame
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Puzzle 08aO7

Rating 1908 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 084f5

Rating 1910 advantageattractionendgame
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Puzzle 05fbj

Rating 1912 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0U3Qn

Rating 1912 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0UL6Y

Rating 1912 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0E6Jz

Rating 1913 advantagekingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0Vbc6

Rating 1913 advantageattackingF2F7middlegame
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