Are there any 'romantic' chess programs? 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.)
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.