Pin

soheil1Can we substitute 'pin' for 'attack' in:The Serbs attacked the village at night(The Serbs pinned the village at night)?

No. They are not the same at all. If the attack is successful AND THEN the village is encircled so that the villagers are unable to escape, THEN the villagers are pinned down.

soheil1Hi.Can we substitute 'pin' for 'attack' in:The Serbs attacked the village at night(The Serbs pinned the village at night)?Can we use pine in a similar meaning to attack, encircle, in the first place?Thanks in advance

"Pin" is a chess term. A **** or piece is pinned when it cannot move because to move would be illegal because it would put its own king in

@enoon:but it does not apply here.WWhat have already pinned the Bishop with 3.Ra8 and the comment goes:

White creates a winning pin on the 8th rank

and then onthen next move, 4.Bb7! GM seirawan commented:

White pins the Black Bishop. If Black does nothing to unpin his poor Bishop, White will simply take it and be

It looks like there is a mistake in the editing there. The rook is what is pinning the bishop, and after Bb7, unpinning the black bishop, maybe by moving the king up, is too late. It seems like that comment belongs after the rook move. The white bishop is attacking the black bishop, not pinning it, if I understand the position (black king on his back rank, black bishop at c8 the only piece between

I think you have forgotten the black rook on d8.

So what does it mean? I cannot just go forward and say ok-this is a mistake.

The publisher told me that there is no mistake and asked me to not talk about it to him anymore. Unfortunately British people look at Iranians with skepticism.

I never knew about the black rook. Something is wrong here. I don't see a pin at all now. Set the board.

It is called 'relative pin' when the screened piece is not the King.When it is, the pin is "Absolute".