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Re:Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine written in Python by tim333 on Sunday June 02, 2019 @12:18PM (#20076345)
The one that beat Kasparov in 1997 could evaluate 200 million positions per second which is quite a lot. On the other hand beating me could probably be done with a modified pocket calculator.
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Re:Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine written in Python by Recursing on Sunday June 02, 2019 @03:48PM (#20077628)
There has been a lot of progress in computer chess software since 1997, the current version of Stockfish is very probably superhuman on a low-end smartphone

I can't find any recent experiment, but here https://en.chessbase.com/post/komodo-8-the-smartphone-vs-des... is a test done in 2014 that shows that smartphones were already clearly superhuman then

In 2019 I estimate we would need less than half of the computing power of that 2014 smartphone to achieve the same playing strength

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