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Week 3 · Lesson 14 of 20 · About 15 minutes

Pins and skewers

Two of their pieces on one line, and something of yours looking down it. You'll be able to: use a pin, and escape a skewer.

Arrow keys move between squares; up is towards your opponent. Enter or Space picks a piece up and puts it down. Escape puts it back.

Step 1 of 7

A pin: a piece that can't move, because something bigger stands behind it. Here the bishop on b5 looks through the knight on c6 at the king.

Tap the pinned piece.