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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 1945–1968 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 02g0n

Rating 2069 advantageattractionendgame
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Puzzle 06ZZI

Rating 2069 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Bb8r

Rating 2071 crushingdefensiveMovediscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 01epa

Rating 2072 crushingdiscoveredAttackexposedKing
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Puzzle 0i15s

Rating 2074 advantagekingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0hjtW

Rating 2075 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0R6ol

Rating 2075 advantageenPassantmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0PkTk

Rating 2076 crushingexposedKingintermezzo
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Puzzle 06XtR

Rating 2077 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0FXzZ

Rating 2077 crushingdefensiveMovelong
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Puzzle 09edG

Rating 2078 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0ODyg

Rating 2078 attractioncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0CEiN

Rating 2079 attractioncrushingdeflection
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