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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 1753–1776 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0Lvq9

Rating 1973 crushingdiscoveredAttackkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0TbKG

Rating 1974 crushingdeflectionmiddlegame
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Puzzle 01aXt

Rating 1975 advantagediscoveredCheckdoubleCheck
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Puzzle 0QydF

Rating 1976 matemateIn4middlegame
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Puzzle 0X2KI

Rating 1976 advantageclearancelong
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Puzzle 09ALw

Rating 1977 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0XcJi

Rating 1977 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0Hkl1

Rating 1979 clearancecrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0KE1r

Rating 1982 clearancecrushinglong
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Puzzle 0NcB9

Rating 1982 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0IQF2

Rating 1983 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0SUy4

Rating 1984 advantagehangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0PCsF

Rating 1988 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0UfLx

Rating 1989 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 09B6t

Rating 1992 advantageattractionmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0CjCU

Rating 1992 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0G8Si

Rating 1992 advantagemiddlegamepin
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