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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.

Every chessmaster was once a beginner. Irving Chernev
I think I would beat Tal pretty easily. Fischer would be more difficult, but I think I could beat him too. Magnus Carlsen
Tal develops all his pieces in the centre and then sacrifices them somewhere. David Bronstein
Carlsen: “I ran out of steam towards the end but fortunately I played better than he did” Magnus Carlsen
2017
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for. Hans Ree

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