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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.

Karpov Lost, Kasparov Lost, the Only One Who Remained Is Me. Silvio Danailov
2014
Good players actually use their long-term memory much more than inexperienced players, who use their short-term memory. Good players try to recall patterns. Magnus Carlsen 2016
2016
What am I doing in this pool of piranhas? Nigel Short
2017
After the 2nd game I could have returned to Moscow. There was only one way I could have won this match. Boris Spassky (1974)
Tal develops all his pieces in the centre and then sacrifices them somewhere. David Bronstein

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