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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 193–216 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0Ey3i

Rating 1077 advantageclearancediscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 02iWd

Rating 1080 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0D9Tr

Rating 1080 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0Cnkb

Rating 1086 advantageattractionendgame
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Puzzle 01pl8

Rating 1090 backRankMatedeflectionhangingPiece
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Puzzle 07nsG

Rating 1091 crushingdiscoveredAttackendgame
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Puzzle 02hRj

Rating 1094 advancedPawnadvantagedeflection
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Puzzle 0KgEn

Rating 1094 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 09Hpb

Rating 1096 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0IZJ5

Rating 1099 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0NXJS

Rating 1100 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 039vE

Rating 1101 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 01s5n

Rating 1102 advantagediscoveredAttackendgame
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