Engines, who needs engines?

As someone who does a bit of chess magazine editing, engines are both a blessing and a curse.  On the one hand they do my my job easier, as I am not going to make too many huge mistakes when annotating a game, at least in the area of tactics. One the other hand, they do make games a little less interesting, especially Correspondence Chess games, where all the top players use engines in deciding their moves.
The other issue is that players seemed to be a little more adventurous, especially in there choice of openings. Opening secrets tended to stay secret for longer, and refutations were a little harder to come by. An example of this was a game I came across while reading about Akiba Rubinstein. Against the ever inventive Rudolf Spielmann, he played his own variation in the Four Knights Spanish variation. Spielmann counterd with a line of his own invention, playing the daring Kf2-g3, allowing Black all sorts of discovered checks. Although Black eventually won, a number of players have been willing to try this exact line, as recently as 2008 (according to my database). While the consensus is that Black is simply better in this line, a number of players including both Keres and Teichmann, burnt the midnight oil to show that this was so.


Spielmann,Rudolf - Rubinstein,Akiba [C48]
Baden-Baden Baden-Baden (4), 20.04.1925

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Nd4 5. Nxe5 Qe7 6. f4 Nxb5 7. Nxb5 d6 8. Nf3 Qxe4+ 9. Kf2 Ng4+ 10. Kg3 Qg6 11. Qe2+ Kd8 12. Re1 Bd7 13. Nbd4 Ne3+ 14. Kf2 Nxc2 15. Nxc2 Qxc2 16. b4 a5 17. Ba3 axb4 18. Bxb4 Qf5 19. Qe3 h6 20. Rac1 Rg8 21. Kg1 g5 22. Qc3 Rc8 23. fxg5 hxg5 24. Kh1 g4 25. Nd4 Qd5 26. Qe3 g3 27. Bc3 Ra8 28. Nf3 gxh2 29. Bf6+ Kc8 30. Qc3 Qc5 31. Qd3 Qh5 32. Ne5 Rxg2 33. Kxg2 dxe5 34. Rxe5 Qg4+ 35. Qg3 Qxg3+ 36. Kxg3 Bd6 37. Kxh2 Rxa2 38. Kg1 Rxd2 39. Rh5 b6 40. Be5 Bc5+ 41. Kf1 Kb7 42. Bg3 Bb5+ 43. Ke1 Re2+ 44. Kd1 Rg2 45. Rc3 Be2+ 0-1