aggressive (gambit loving) chess engines or tunings

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what I WANT is access to "crazy gambiting" leela chess zero to build my opening books. i couldn't get it to work on my home system a couple years ago and can't use any of the current online versions to analyze theory.

i rely mostly on stockfish, but was REALLY liking my trial version of chess junior (possibly 13.8 yokohama) in my shootouts a few years ago as it was embarrassing stronger engines in the opening a lot, and that's what i'm looking for, and engine that gets gambits. in looking at database games, i see that often, lines stockfish picks as "best" actually perform worst. i'm guessing players don't see the same things as stockfish.

i remember someone mentioning zappa mexico's "dissident" tuning and in trying to research the subject today with nothing new for 5 years, learned someone tuned stockfish to "play romantically". that's what i'm looking for, "Nakumura in a box" to build books with. 

i'm building them from game databases that contain AMATEUR games so i'm fully booked up on lines i'll actually SEE and not a ton of grandmaster bean counting lines no one plays OTB.

i see a bunch of new engines topping the CCLR list: https://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/4040/

but didn't learn much about playing styles looking into the new programs. as no one's even ASKED this question in 5 years, it seems time to update the topic.

if anyone REALLY understands engines and theory, i'd like 2nd opinion engines that seek aggressive development over anything... much the way the smith morra gambit works with all of white's pieces ready to pounce on any black blunders. i never had so much tactical fun running on only 40 lines or so of theory! i quit playing chess because there wasn't a tree based book editor/trainer and i could never get ANYONE to listen to me that THAT'S the ONLY correct way to book build & train and because i was sick and tired of stonewall attack & defense and 1.e4 d5 2.e5 cramping me in half of my scandinavian games.

now that i've found a USEABLE book trainer, i'd like to try and get back to my 1650 former glory and surpass it FULLY booked up.

yes, stockfish IS the strongest "regular" chess engine, but i don't trust it to play aggressively. oh i hated fritz 6! it was sooooo passive, often retreating pieces back to their starting squares instead of developing and it sucked all the life out of a gambit line where black was winning in the scandinavian trying too hard to "equalize the BORING positions" it liked. i could almost ALWAYS play 30 moves against it and liked the free copy of crafty that came with it better. it was hard to get to move 20 with playing chances with that.

junior yokohama is my top choice, but it's $50 and rare used. i saw a $15 copy of #9, but it's up to 13.8 and THAT is years old already. i haven't had luck finding gambit tiger in the past either. i tried thinker inert which is SUPPOSED to be aggressive, but it's useless for analysis as it only plays. i'm hoping there's new (maybe neural netter) programs that have some teeth for getting into serious double edged positions and OUT of boring unplayable, for me, positional main line ones.

anyone with anything to add to this old old topic would be greatly appreciated.

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