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

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit at 03 Nov, 16:55 UTC

IBM spent millions building Deep Blue, a custom supercomputer with 480 chess co-processors, to beat Garry Kasparov in 1997. A new experiment asks whether an off-the-shelf 1996 desktop and better software would have done the job instead. The answer is yes, and it isn’t close. The test machine is a…

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• T1Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit03 Nov, 16:55