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Improve Your Chess: Highly Instructive Games - Seidman-Santasiere 1939

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Player(s):

Seidman, Santasiere

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Seidman
Santasiere
game analysis

Stockfish finds a cute "computer win" that Seidman misses in the opening but he gets a large advantage anyway. Black's pieces get cut off from the kingside and Seidman launches a justified attack there. Prompted, Seidman sacrifices multiple pieces for a murderous attack.  Santasiere tries to give back some of the material, but Seidman's attack is just too deadly and Santasiere's king gets caught in the middle and the crossfire is too much. First seen in Chernev's book The Bright Side of Chess.