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Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996? (nicholas.carlini.com)
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[–] WhiplashPost@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

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.