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.
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Quotes of the Day
” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.”
Marcel Duchamp
School is a waste of time for me. I want to be world chess champion, and they can’t teach me anything there.
Robert Fischer 1961
Looks like I’m going to raise the average age of the field and lower the average rating!
Garry Kasparov 2017
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.
Hans Ree
I believe that every world champion has a greatness of his own.
Kiril Georgiev 2017