Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?

The main point the post is trying to make is accurate, modern chess engines are stronger mostly due to improved eval, search, etc and not hardware; but the idea that Kasparov would lose to one on 90s hardware is not as clearly true as one might think. Modern engine eval functions and search algos make very different…

Very tangential, but I think a lot about how modern video compression has gotten so unbelievably good that if we went back in time with AV1 or HEVC or something, I'm wondering if we could have had passable video streaming at 240p with something like an ISDN connection. It would be a tight fit, but I still think…

Awesome article. Nit: > the average chess grandmaster during a classical game will analyze roughly the same number of moves as an amateur player, but they analyze only the most critical moves and do a better job with that analysis. I don't buy this. I've seen GMs playing online while verbalizing their thought process…