A fooled computer

A game a played today against my electronic chessboard, there were a few things I've been thinking about that might be worth studying? Grateful for any help :)

Just a suggestion, it's probably best not to play 4. Nc3 because after 4...Nxe4 black is better. (4...Nxe4 5.Nxe4 d5)

I'm don't think 7.Bxf7+ is better than what was played as it would give up the bishop pair (not that it mattered too much in the game)

9.d6 is best to refute the sacrifice, and it gives black an equal(if not slightly winning due to the pawn advantage) game.

After that the computer made silly moves and you played perfectly against them.

The only question is "What level was your computer set at anyways"?.For it make moves like that.

"i felt that i could recover the pawn later" lmao. oh really kasparov?

what was the computers rating

 what's wrong with that? It was defiinately a position where he regains the pawn or causes his opponent to make large concessions in order to keep the material advantage.

I don't know, I just fnid that "picking up the lost pawn" is a LOT harder than Kasparov makes it seem. You have to essentially think around 5 moves ahead in order to SURELY pick up the pawn, also calculating your opponents playing ability, likely moves, possibly uncharacteristic moves, random moves, possible moves you don't see etc. in order to be able to say "Yeah, i'll pick that pawn up later". It takes a little bit of skill.

Especially at the lower ratings, you'll never know waht they'll do so to be able to predict that requires some genius.

what about just moving the king? whre's white's attack then?

but if this is the only viable defence, why take the gambit to start?

Let's not forget that some players sac the exchange almost every game and still hold good records. Being a pawn down isn't a big deal if you play for initiative and attack. Recently I seriously overextended myself trying to regain a lost pawn, which I recovered, but then lost horribly for my poor general position.