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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.

My relation with Korchnoi depends on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish. Anatoly Karpov
2005
The game of chess is turning out to be much richer than we knew-you can’t reduce it to the simple rules Vishy Anand
2017
.If we compare Carlsen with Anand or me or someone else, by ten criteria, he will be stronger in eight of them. Veselin Topalov
2015
My style is based on giving energy and creating. Karpov’s style is something that is probably taking energy from his opponent. NIC 1989 Garry Kasparov
1989 NIC
I was pushed out of USSR by the hands of Petrosian and Karpov. But now, after 10 years, Petrosian is not longer alive and Karpov is not longer World Champion, so it seems that everything is in place now. Viktor Kortchnoi
1986 NIC

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