I’m confused about pinning a piece

You can never make a move that exposes your own king to check, regardless of if the checking piece is pinned.

There are two types of pins: relative and absolute.

• A relative pin is where the pinned piece can legally move out of the way, but doing so would allow another piece to be captured, such as a Queen.
• An absolute pin is where a piece is pinned against the King: moving that piece is now illegal as you cannot expose yourself to check.

Here is an example to illustrate the absolute pin:

And here is an example of a relative pin:

There are a handful of ways to get a piece out of a pin:

1. Move the valuable piece to another square, unpinning the attacked piece.
2. Use another piece or a pawn to block the line of sight of the pinning piece.
3. Attempt to kick the pinning piece away with a pawn.
4. Capture the pinning piece entirely.

If you were allowed to move and expose your king to check, your opponent could as well. Think of if it as the player who would get their king captured first if that was allowed. You opponent would take your kink first, ending the game.

That's not how it works.

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If a piece is absolutely pinned, it cannot move even if the piece is threatening mate in 1. Imagine the game rules were changed to "take the king to win". "Checkmating" the opposite king with a pinned piece would be a blunder, since the previously pinning piece (the piece used for pinning a piece) would capture you king, so you lose. Example:

#8 in that example should add some material (at least some other piece to cover g6); queen pin doesn't look realistic when queen can just capture pinning piece

It's your move but right before getting to mate you're discovering your king, so it's impossible.

A pin is a tactic where a piece is immobilized because moving it would expose a more valuable piece (often the king or queen) to capture.

Thank you, captain ChatGPT.

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