user12559: Are there any chess programs, which play gambits? I have two solutions in mind:

It tries to offer situations where one of your moves looks quite promising on the short term (3-5 moves), but later it turns out to be disastrous.

Or the opposite:

It tries to reach positions, which look bad for you, but there's a single line (hard to find), which can save the day.

I guess the difficulty of writing such programs can be that it's not trivial to decide which lines are easy to be found by a human and which aren't. (And that also depends on the skills of the player, so some parameters would be required.)

user14760: Houdini may be worthwhile checking out.  See link.
http://www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm
(4th paragraph down)

"The Chess Club Live Facebook page phrased it like this: "If there
  ever was a computer descendant of the romantic players like Morphy,
  Anderssen, Spielmann, Marshall, Bogoljubow, Tal, Nezhmetdinov, Shirov,
  Morozevich it would be Houdini. Houdini is the current World number 1
  chess engine and plays in a very romantic style."

I didn't notice when the quote was from because the last time in the TCEC Championship that Houdini was #1 was 2013. 
I use Houdini 5.  I can attest to the romantic style of play.  Quite a change when you are used to seeing how Komodo or Stockfish play.  Settings are relatively user friendly. 
It is a commercial engine but the developers do offer Houdini 1.5 for free.

12559: <p>Are there any chess programs, which play gambits? I have two solutions in mind:</p>

<ol>
<li>It tries to offer situations where one of your moves looks quite promising on the short term (3-5 moves), but later it turns out to be disastrous.</li>
</ol>

<p>Or the opposite:</p>

<ol start="2">
<li>It tries to reach positions, which look bad for you, but there's a single line (hard to find), which can save the day.</li>
</ol>

<p>I guess the difficulty of writing such programs can be that it's not trivial to decide which lines are easy to be found by a human and which aren't. (And that also depends on the skills of the player, so some parameters would be required.)</p>
 14760: <p>Houdini may be worthwhile checking out.  See link.</p>

<p><em><a href="http://www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm</a>
(4th paragraph down)</em></p>

<blockquote>
  <p>"The Chess Club Live Facebook page phrased it like this: "If there
  ever was a computer descendant of the romantic players like Morphy,
  Anderssen, Spielmann, Marshall, Bogoljubow, Tal, Nezhmetdinov, Shirov,
  Morozevich it would be Houdini. Houdini is the current World number 1
  chess engine and plays in a very romantic style."</p>
</blockquote>

<p><em>I didn't notice when the quote was from because the last time in the TCEC Championship that Houdini was #1 was 2013.</em>  </p>

<p>I use Houdini 5.  I can attest to the romantic style of play.  Quite a change when you are used to seeing how Komodo or Stockfish play.  Settings are relatively user friendly. </p>

<p>It is a commercial engine but the developers do offer Houdini 1.5 for free.</p>
