Learn How to Win Material: Discovered Attack
This middlegame puzzle comes from the Modern Defense and shows how a discovered attack can turn a tense position into a decisive material win. White’s pieces are active, but the key idea is to remove a defender and expose the black queen to a tactical hit. The position also features kingside pressure and a loose black queen, so the tactic works because several targets are aligned at once. In classical chess, these combinations often decide the game before any endgame is reached.