Russ, you are sooo close. Brandon is actually an experimental bot made by Anand to run a variety of stability tests on his new hardware. Anand likes fast cars, so he figured "why not make a bot that loves racing games and perfomance vehicles?" Thus, the figure "Brandon" was created a few years ago with NSF4 as the main testing program. Somehow "Brandon" took over one of Anand's boxes and got onto the forums. The anomaly, however, is not in this "NSF4"'s existence, but in everyones blind belief that he is actually human.