The process of turning a pin ineffective. This can be done by:
Attacking the pinning piece
Removing the unit of higher value behind it
Interposing between the pinning piece and the pinned piece or between the pinned piece and the piece of higher value behind it
Deflecting the pinning piece
Counterpin
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Quotes of the Day
Not this time, Mr. Carlsen! (after winning the World Blitz Championship 2016)
Sergey Karjakin 2016
There was a moment at the beginning when the machines were a positive, but lately we’ve being passing to the other extreme. Now it seems that a move isn’t good unless the machine says so.
Veselin Topalov 2016
Vugar Gashimov deserves to be immortalized!
Mahir Mamedov 2014
I am fighting for the future of chess, for the integrity of the game I love. Only when it’s clean it can grow.
Garry Kasparov 2014
I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language.
Boris Spassky 1995
