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Re:Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Ka... by vhcr on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:22AM (#50351119)
> As it turns out, the majority of the Elo gains (+720 of the +1335 gained) can be attributed to better programming, and not better hardware.

It's not so easy, a lot of that better programming can be attributed to better hardware, it wouldn't have been possible to implement NNUE or Fishtest without modern hardware.

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