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A situation when a piece or a pawn cannot or is forbidden to move because it could expose the king for an attack or would expose a more valuable piece behind it to capture.

In the following example Qa3 and Re7 are pinned.

I think that ACP is a small clique, which gives power to more cliques. Nigel Short
2016
I think I would beat Tal pretty easily. Fischer would be more difficult, but I think I could beat him too. Magnus Carlsen
” The essence of chess is thinking about what chess is.” David Bronstein
Maybe I had something of Capablanca. Why should I prepare when I have ideas? Svetozar Gligoric
1989 NIC
The Golden Age, when machines were weak and my hair was strong! Garry Kasparov
2017

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