This is a doosie of an example of modern sacrificial attack.
B Vladimirov vs Z Doda, 1967  (A69) Benoni, Four Pawns Attack, Main line, 27 moves, 1-0
Such beautiful calculation.
Bronstein vs V Mikenas, 1941  (C40) King's Knight Opening, 25 moves, 1-0
Positionally correct? It doesn't get more correct than this
Vilem Novak vs Karpov, 1966  (E22) Nimzo-Indian, Spielmann Variation, 19 moves, 0-1
One of those pre-steinitz games
Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1851  (C30) King's Gambit Declined, 23 moves, 1-0
Anderson's Immortal Game
Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851  (C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 23 moves, 1-0
His Style is Dull.... and it works!
Karpov vs V Pronin, 1968  (A43) Old Benoni, 22 moves, 1-0
The Evergreen Game, Attackers have all the fun
Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852  (C52) Evans Gambit, 24 moves, 1-0
Another Didactic Ditty from AAA
Alekhine vs NN, 1911  (D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 32 moves, 1-0
Classic Bishop Sacrifice in the French
M Pestalozzi vs D Duhm, 1900  (C13) French, 18 moves, 1-0
Petrosian Mecking, Light-Square Domination
Petrosian vs Mecking, 1969  (B06) Robatsch, 41 moves, 1-0
Queen trap in bishop's opening
E Paehtz vs M Mueller-Seps, 2004  (C24) Bishop's Opening, 11 moves, 1-0
topalov maneuvers in the middlegame
Topalov vs F Vallejo Pons, 2012  (C14) French, Classical, 33 moves, 1-0
Very nice Velimirovic attack
W A Brown vs R Kneebone, 1985  (B89) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0
Nice Little Sozin Attack
J Aijala vs T Leppamaki, 1968  (B89) Sicilian, 26 moves, 1-0
Tal Versus B-Player, guess who wins!
Tal vs J Miller, 1988  (C55) Two Knights Defense, 33 moves, 1-0
Nice Little Win by Ernst
T Ernst vs Jansa, 1986 (B81) Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack, 43 moves, 1-0
This is just pulling the wings off of flies
H Asauskas vs Malisauskas, 2004  (B90) Sicilian, Najdorf, 24 moves, 1-0
Very Scary Attack from the black side of the Ruy Lopez
V Kuznetsov vs G Gajewski, 2007  (C96) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 31 moves, 0-1
One of the more interesting grandmaster-level miniatures.
Geller vs Portisch, 1967  (C93) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense, 23 moves, 1-0
Big attack by black!
Tartakower vs Euwe, 1948  (C53) Giuoco Piano, 42 moves, 0-1
Wicked Smith Mora
R Malpert vs B Rind, 1992  (B21) Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4, 23 moves, 1-0
An amazing game
Van der Wiel vs Sax, 1983  (B76) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 23 moves, 1-0
Teichmann appears not to make any mistakes and still loses!
Rubinstein vs Teichmann, 1908  (D61) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, 26 moves, 1-0
A 20-move game with no obvious mistakes
J Dobias vs J Podgorny, 1952  (C10) French, 20 moves, 1-0
Spielmann Schools Nimzovithc on the initiative.
Spielmann vs Nimzowitsch, 1905  (C45) Scotch Game, 42 moves, 1-0
Pretty savage attack!
Topalov vs Ponomariov, 2005  (E15) Queen's Indian, 30 moves, 1-0
Pretty cool sacrificial attack
B Ivanovic vs E Ermenkov, 1983  (B54) Sicilian, 26 moves, 1-0
Beautiful attack
M Rohde vs W Martz, 1977  (C30) King's Gambit Declined, 25 moves, 1-0
Lots of attack here...
Korchnoi vs Fischer, 1970  (E97) King's Indian, 31 moves, 0-1
Interesting...
A I Zakharov vs A Bannik, 1963  (B43) Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3, 32 moves, 1-0
Whoa! Good lord!
Kavalek vs G Khodos, 1965  (B43) Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3, 22 moves, 1-0
Lovely, extended attack based on an early exchange sacrifice.
M Dziuba vs A Ipatov, 2009  (D85) Grunfeld, 39 moves, 1-0
Let's just say, "Yikes!"
G Castaneda vs Jobava, 1998  (B52) Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack, 34 moves, 1-0
Good God, y'all.
Sax vs Ehlvest, 1988  (B81) Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack, 26 moves, 1-0
Deep, brutal tactics.
J Zhao vs D Xiu, 2011  (E26) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch, 31 moves, 1-0
Not complicated enough...
Nunn vs B Gasic, 1974  (B90) Sicilian, Najdorf, 44 moves, 1-0
Polugaevsky Gambit QID. Massive initiative.
Kasparov vs Marjanovic, 1980  (E17) Queen's Indian, 23 moves, 1-0
Diemer's Game
E Diemer vs K Locher, 1948  (D00) Queen's Pawn Game, 16 moves, 1-0
Anderson miniature with black
F Riemann vs Anderssen, 1876  (C33) King's Gambit Accepted, 16 moves, 0-1
Muzio Double Gambit
Soren Jensen vs F Urkedal, 2013  (C37) King's Gambit Accepted, 21 moves, 1-0
Keres attack?! Yikes!
Kotronias vs K Georgiev, 1994  (B81) Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack, 25 moves, 1-0
An Amazing Tactical Run
M Massironi vs F Stips, 2007  (B81) Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack, 20 moves, 1-0
Interesting attacking game with a keres attack variant
Anand vs Svidler, 2017  (B45) Sicilian, Taimanov, 32 moves, 1-0
Fascinating Ruy Lopez game. Anand got what he wanted.
Anand vs Svidler, 2016  (C84) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 24 moves, 1-0
A fantastic game by Bronstein
Bronstein vs Geller, 1961  (E27) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch Variation, 20 moves, 1-0
A very geometry and time oriented game.
E Korchmar vs Y Polyak, 1937  (C62) Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense, 23 moves, 1-0
An attracking game rising from purely positional factors.
T L Petrosian vs A Minasian, 2006  (C67) Ruy Lopez, 30 moves, 1-0
A very beautiful attacking game with a LOT of lessons in it.
C Hansen vs Ftacnik, 1991  (A16) English, 37 moves, 1-0
Brilliant, rolling initiative.
B Gurgenidze vs R Bellin, 1977  (C43) Petrov, Modern Attack, 20 moves, 1-0
Very Intense use of space, pawn formations, color complexes, +c
B Verlinsky vs V Kirillov, 1933  (A07) King's Indian Attack, 34 moves, 1-0
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