Still, it is a bit unsettling to see one of them recently manhandle a Jerome Gambiteer in a critical theoretical line.
NIZAM - GriffySr
standard, FICS, 2010
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+
4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6
Computers are far less afraid of this line than humans.
7.f4 d6
The frustrating line that computers love. There's no use playing the Jerome Gambit against a computer unless (among other things) you have a plan on how to attack this.
8.Qf5+
NIZAM launches his Queen against the defense. "Book" is 8.fxe5.
8...Ke7 9.Qg5+ Ke8 10.Qxg7
A human blitz player, seeing two pieces attacked and the enemy Queen so close to his King, might quail; but not a feeling-less computer.
10...Qh4+ 11.g3
There was no joy in the "better" 11.Qg3 Qxg3+ 12.hxg3.
11...Nf3+ 12.Ke2 Nd4+ 13.Kd1
Allowing the finish.
13...Bg4+ 14.Ke1 Nxc2+ 15.Kf1 Qh3 checkmate
"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him..."
