Chess Side Step is when you're running for your life and you HAPPEN to side step mate and mate someone else. Now this is not like stealing someone's spouse, but more like stealing their King!
He actually violated a cardinal rule in chess: never attack until development is complete. Had his c8 bishop been somewhere else, it may have aided defence.
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