The double bishop sacrifice is one of the most beautiful combinational motifs, and although its been seen quite a few times over the years the games are comparatively rare.  

Here then are four games featuring this sacrifice.  Of course these are just souvenirs, play over the games on a board sometime and really learn what this motif is about.

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Lasker - Bauer Amsterdam  1889, the famous stem game, or so we are told.

 

Nimzovich - Tarrasch St.Petersburg, 1914, another example of the double bishop sacrifice.

Not bad eh?

Koltanowski,G - Defosse 1936 and another...

 

And one more for luck....

Kirilov - Furman , Vilnius 1949

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