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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 2185–2208 of 3322 matching records

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Puzzle 0hX9Q

Rating 2197 advantagedefensiveMovemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0BXBN

Rating 2198 advantagediscoveredAttacklong
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Puzzle 0I95t

Rating 2198 crushingkingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0MkvV

Rating 2198 crushingdiscoveredAttackdiscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 0SGTf

Rating 2198 crushingdeflectiondiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 0Bsv4

Rating 2199 crushingkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 09gRW

Rating 2200 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 00ZEW

Rating 2201 advantagediscoveredAttackdiscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 0k7ni

Rating 2201 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0E5iE

Rating 2203 advancedPawnadvantageendgame
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Puzzle 06jpB

Rating 2204 advancedPawnadvantagecapturingDefender
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Puzzle 07AfS

Rating 2204 attractioncrushingdiscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 0t14G

Rating 2204 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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