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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 1705–1728 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 03xAn

Rating 1949 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0BMlM

Rating 1949 advantageclearancelong
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Puzzle 04KkX

Rating 1950 clearancecrushingintermezzo
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Puzzle 0C755

Rating 1950 attractionendgamemate
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Puzzle 0RCJD

Rating 1950 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0VHS1

Rating 1950 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0XOfu

Rating 1953 advantageattractionlong
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Puzzle 07LBQ

Rating 1954 attractionkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 09WQ2

Rating 1955 attractionmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0LCOD

Rating 1955 equalitymiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 03Iup

Rating 1956 attractiondeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 03M6W

Rating 1957 kingsideAttacklongmate
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Puzzle 0MPoD

Rating 1958 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0CYBG

Rating 1960 crushingdeflectionmaster
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Puzzle 0NEiH

Rating 1960 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0YIcn

Rating 1960 advantagedeflectionmiddlegame
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Puzzle 06Xhx

Rating 1961 attractioncrushingdiscoveredAttack
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