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Dan Heisman's Highly Instructive Games: Seidman-Santasiere 1939

NM Dan Heisman selects for you highly instructive games, that will help you improve your game! In this new series, Dan analyzes famous and not-so-famous games that he thinks will give you a tool to get to the next level.

Today's show: 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.

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