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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 1633–1656 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0L8rs

Rating 1914 advantageexposedKinglong
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Puzzle 0OWsz

Rating 1915 advantagekingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0Cm16

Rating 1916 advantageforkmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0O6GG

Rating 1916 advantagekingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Tzir

Rating 1916 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0S6rQ

Rating 1918 attractionkingsideAttackmate
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Puzzle 05s8P

Rating 1919 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 05m8V

Rating 1920 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0Kumy

Rating 1920 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 0Lq7k

Rating 1920 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0X3UM

Rating 1920 advantageexposedKingkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0HM65

Rating 1923 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 01g9c

Rating 1924 deflectionmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0UXDb

Rating 1925 advantagedefensiveMovedeflection
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Puzzle 04ROo

Rating 1926 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0931l

Rating 1926 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0NYUy

Rating 1927 advantagedefensiveMovemiddlegame
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