The original original
Burn vs J Owen, 1884  (A04) Reti Opening, 40 moves, 1-0
Lasker's Original
Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889  (A03) Bird's Opening, 38 moves, 1-0
The second sac comes on f6 rather than g7
Schlechter vs Maroczy, 1907  (D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 28 moves, 1-0
Tarrasch Plagiarises
A Nimzowitsch vs Tarrasch, 1914  (D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 32 moves, 0-1
Alekhine's (double-barrelled shot-) Gun
Alekhine vs J Drewitt, 1923  (A06) Reti Opening, 22 moves, 1-0
Rubinstein vs Janowski, 1925  (A50) Queen's Pawn Game, 25 moves, 1-0
A text-Book sac
E Book vs V Ingerslev, 1929  (C00) French Defense, 20 moves, 1-0
Here's another one
Koltanowski vs M Defosse, 1936  (D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 30 moves, 1-0
Black does not dare take the 2nd Bishop
K Junge vs C Kottnauer, 1942  (D46) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 32 moves, 1-0
Yet again... and in the USSR Championships
V Kirillov vs Furman, 1949  (C77) Ruy Lopez, 27 moves, 0-1
Pachman vs O Neikirch, 1958  (D41) Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 26 moves, 1-0
As classic a double bishop sac as you'll find
G Kuzmin vs Sveshnikov, 1973  (B47) Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation, 21 moves, 1-0
One bishop goes and... wait for it... there goes the next
Taimanov vs A Shashin, 1978  (A04) Reti Opening, 28 moves, 1-0
Brit Art
Miles vs Browne, 1982  (D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 23 moves, 1-0
Gazza's effort... cooked up at home
Kasparov vs Portisch, 1983  (E12) Queen's Indian, 35 moves, 1-0
Learning from Miles v Browne
W A Brown vs R Kneebone, 1985  (B89) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0
Double Bishop Sacrifice ... declined
E Dizdarevic vs Miles, 1985  (E14) Queen's Indian, 18 moves, 0-1
A variation on the theme (Anatoly's the victim, again)
Kasparov vs Karpov, 1988  (B17) Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation, 39 moves, 1-0
A speculative effort, perhaps unsound
Kudrin vs H A Machado Jr, 1988  (C42) Petrov Defense, 29 moves, 1-0
Kramnik play's in Karpov's Style
Gelfand vs Kramnik, 1994  (C10) French, 26 moves, 1-0
Nelson turned a blind eye.
N Gamboa vs Blatny, 1996  (A52) Budapest Gambit, 29 moves, 0-1
...still falling for it
L Filatov vs S F Mayer, 2000  (D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 18 moves, 1-0
Good Enough for a Draw Only
Benjamin vs J Bartholomew, 2003  (B01) Scandinavian, 40 moves, 1/2-1/2
Judit surprises our dedicatee
J Polgar vs Karpov, 2003  (C42) Petrov Defense, 26 moves, 1-0
A Non-Classic Double Bishop Sacrifice
K Spraggett vs G Vescovi, 2004  (C92) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 37 moves, 1-0
Koneru vs Z Nemeth, 2005  (D27) Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical, 35 moves, 1-0
Sutovsky vs P Vavrak, 2008  (C03) French, Tarrasch, 26 moves, 1-0
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