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Nicholas Carlini demonstrates that a modern Stockfish port running on a 1996-era 200 MHz Pentium Pro achieves ~3300 Elo, far surpassing Kasparov's ~2800, showing that most of the +1335 Elo gain since 1996 comes from better programming (+720) rather than faster hardware — meaning Deep Blue's custom supercomputer was never necessary.
A reflection on how Deep Blue's 1997 victory over Kasparov did not harm chess, but instead led to increased interest and more professional players.