A fun experiment where I back-port all the improvements we've made to chess engines over the last 30 years and run it on a 1996 Pentium Pro to see what we could have done if only we knew more at the time.
Isn’t that obvious? Like processor tech is doing the same thing Turings machine did for the most part just much much faster. Technically you could compute the operations of a chess engine by hand on paper and get the exact same outcome. It would just take… a very very long time. It’s just math.
I love this article, and the author goes much deeper than just the Kasparov question.
One fun thing he also looked at was whether a modern chess engine on a pentium could beat a 1996 chess engine on a very powerful modem desktop PC.
The extended TL;DR is a big win for optimization. New software on actual 1995 hardware beats basically everything except new software on new hardware.
Isn’t that obvious? Like processor tech is doing the same thing Turings machine did for the most part just much much faster. Technically you could compute the operations of a chess engine by hand on paper and get the exact same outcome. It would just take… a very very long time. It’s just math.