Other Online Computer Foes?

The email continues this week, with an interesting game, and an over-arching question, from Bill Wall. Can readers help identify other online computer foes?


Rick,

After reading your latest blog on Boris at sparkchess, I decided to play a Jerome Gambit against it as well.
Here is my effort.  Do you happen to know other links that one may be able to play a Jerome against a computer online?
I can't get any of the engines at FICS to play a Jerome.

Bill


Wall, Bill - Boris
sparkchess.com, 2012

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ 

4...Kxf7 5.O-O Ke8 6.Nxe5 Nf6

According to The Database, this is a Theoretical Novelty. It is likely that after 5.0-0 Boris was out of it's "book" and was thinking on its own. The play continues to have a quirky feel for both sides.

7.Nd3

This is an interesting move, as if Bill knows how Boris will respond. That reminds me of the query, if a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one around to hear it, does it make a noise? only in this case it would go, if Boris is a computer, and doesn't really "think", is it possible for Bill to read its mind?

7...d6 8.Nxc5 dxc5 9.Nc3 Kf7 10.d3 Kg8 

Typical Jerome Gambit play: White has his central "Jerome pawns" ready to roll, while Black has "castled-by-hand".

11.Bg5

Again, this is an interesting move, as if Bill knew that he could get Boris to over expand on the kingside. Of course, pressure on f6, including the use of the White Rook on the f-file, is thematic in the Jerome Gambit, too.

11...h6 12.Bh4 g5 13.Bg3 Be6 14.f4 gxf4 15.Bxf4 

15...Qd4+ 16.Kh1 Rc8 17.Qd2 h5 18.Ne2 Qxb2 

Not a good time for the computer to turn greedy.

19.Rab1 Qa3

It was time to surrender some material with 19...Nxe4. Now Boris is in deep trouble.

20.Be5 Nxe4 21.dxe4 Nxe5 22.Qg5+ Kh7 23.Rf6 Qc1+ 24.Rxc1 Bg4 25.Rh6 checkmate

By the way, if you Google "play chess against the computer online" you will find plenty of online sites with computer programs to try the Jerome Gambit against...