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
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well.
Magnus Carlsen 2017
He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him.
Veselin Topalov 2016
Kramnik was the luckiest man in the history of chess. He never won a single cycle, he got all the matches that he played for political reasons.
Veselin Topalov 2014
I still think people can learn at any age – I’m actually sure about that. It’s just that the ceiling is lower for how far you want to go.
Magnus Carlsen 2016
This one hour allows me to put the problem into the background and then, when I come back, I am much more rational and less emotional about the particular problem and I can think better about it.
G. Borg 2016
