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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 1681–1704 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0Xz72

Rating 1939 crushingintermezzomaster
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Puzzle 0GIhN

Rating 1940 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0BZb5

Rating 1941 attractioncrushingexposedKing
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Puzzle 0Kkla

Rating 1941 clearancekingsideAttackmaster
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Puzzle 0PEHD

Rating 1941 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0WrZx

Rating 1941 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 05HWi

Rating 1942 advantagekingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 00eak

Rating 1943 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 04BxX

Rating 1944 crushingkingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0FDcl

Rating 1944 advantageattractiondeflection
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Puzzle 0U1GO

Rating 1944 crushingintermezzolong
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Puzzle 0Y4cT

Rating 1944 attractioncrushinglong
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Puzzle 00Se9

Rating 1946 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 05LeR

Rating 1947 capturingDefendercrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 0KR02

Rating 1947 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 00RtC

Rating 1948 advantagedeflectiondiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 0459E

Rating 1948 crushingdeflectionkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0PxLo

Rating 1948 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0VH9x

Rating 1948 attractioncrushingfork
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Puzzle 038eV

Rating 1949 advantagehangingPiecelong
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