Pin (chess)

Pin - in chess, a situation brought on by an attacking piece in which a defending piece cannot move without exposing a more valuable defending piece on its other side to capture by the attacking piece. Article “Pin (chess)” in English Wikipedia has 37.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.99 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Pin (chess)”, its content was written by 77 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 450 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 560 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1731 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4988 in August 2003
• Global: #6124 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #215360 in December 2020
• Global: #25641 in July 2019

There are 28 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Pin (chess)		37.7805
2	Tamil (ta) செருகி (சதுரங்கம்)		36.7746
3	Japanese (ja) ピン (チェス)		34.8718
4	Turkish (tr) Açmaz (satranç)		31.1197
5	French (fr) Clouage		29.8285
6	German (de) Fesselung (Schach)		25.8679
7	Bulgarian (bg) Свръзка (шахмат)		21.3509
8	Arabic (ar) تثبيت (شطرنج)		17.7268
9	Persian (fa) آچمز		15.8854
10	Russian (ru) Связка (шахматы)		14.1354

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Pin (chess)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Persian (fa) آچمز		425 226
2	English (en) Pin (chess)		410 248
3	Spanish (es) Clavada (ajedrez)		109 345
4	Russian (ru) Связка (шахматы)		74 426
5	German (de) Fesselung (Schach)		71 062
6	French (fr) Clouage		52 625
7	Japanese (ja) ピン (チェス)		46 320
8	Polish (pl) Związanie		30 549
9	Dutch (nl) Penning (schaken)		26 562
10	Italian (it) Inchiodatura		25 299

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Pin (chess)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pin (chess)		2 443
2	Persian (fa) آچمز		1 901
3	German (de) Fesselung (Schach)		328
4	Russian (ru) Связка (шахматы)		302
5	French (fr) Clouage		235
6	Japanese (ja) ピン (チェス)		129
7	Spanish (es) Clavada (ajedrez)		121
8	Dutch (nl) Penning (schaken)		88
9	Italian (it) Inchiodatura		82
10	Turkish (tr) Açmaz (satranç)		65

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Pin (chess)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pin (chess)		77
2	German (de) Fesselung (Schach)		54
3	Dutch (nl) Penning (schaken)		37
4	Persian (fa) آچمز		27
5	French (fr) Clouage		27
6	Italian (it) Inchiodatura		26
7	Russian (ru) Связка (шахматы)		24
8	Japanese (ja) ピン (チェス)		20
9	Danish (da) Binding (skak)		19
10	Spanish (es) Clavada (ajedrez)		16

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Pin (chess)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Persian (fa) آچمز		1
2	Ukrainian (uk) Зв'язування (шахи)		1
3	Arabic (ar) تثبيت (شطرنج)		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Bağlama (şahmat)		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Свръзка (шахмат)		0
6	Catalan (ca) Clavada (escacs)		0
7	Czech (cs) Vazba (šachy)		0
8	Danish (da) Binding (skak)		0
9	German (de) Fesselung (Schach)		0
10	English (en) Pin (chess)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Pin (chess)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Pin (chess)		560
2	Arabic (ar) تثبيت (شطرنج)		162
3	Russian (ru) Связка (шахматы)		130
4	Ukrainian (uk) Зв'язування (шахи)		110
5	German (de) Fesselung (Schach)		107
6	French (fr) Clouage		104
7	Japanese (ja) ピン (チェス)		88
8	Korean (ko) 핀 (체스)		85
9	Turkish (tr) Açmaz (satranç)		79
10	Catalan (ca) Clavada (escacs)		62

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تثبيت (شطرنج)
az	Azerbaijani Bağlama (şahmat)
bg	Bulgarian Свръзка (шахмат)
ca	Catalan Clavada (escacs)
cs	Czech Vazba (šachy)
da	Danish Binding (skak)
de	German Fesselung (Schach)
en	English Pin (chess)
es	Spanish Clavada (ajedrez)
et	Estonian Sidumine (male)
fa	Persian آچمز
fi	Finnish Kiinnitys (shakki)
fr	French Clouage
he	Hebrew ריתוק (שחמט)
it	Italian Inchiodatura
ja	Japanese ピン (チェス)
ko	Korean 핀 (체스)
lt	Lithuanian Surišimas (šachmatai)
nl	Dutch Penning (schaken)
no	Norwegian Binding (sjakk)
pl	Polish Związanie
pt	Portuguese Pregadura (xadrez)
ru	Russian Связка (шахматы)
sl	Slovenian Šahovska vezava
sv	Swedish Bindning (schack)
ta	Tamil செருகி (சதுரங்கம்)
tr	Turkish Açmaz (satranç)
uk	Ukrainian Зв'язування (шахи)

Best Rank

English: #215360 12.2020

Global: #25641 07.2019

Best Rank

English: #4988 08.2003

Global: #6124 04.2002

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