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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.
Luke Salamone distilled Stockfish evaluations into 3.9 billion chess positions and trained a hybrid ResNet-Transformer value network on 1 billion of them, releasing the open Gigafish 3.8B state-value dataset on Hugging Face — reportedly the largest open chess state-value dataset to date.
SpaceX exercises option to acquire Cursor AI in an all-stock deal to build the world's most useful AI models, with a jointly trained model to be released in Cursor and Grok Build.
A chess coaching tool that uses an LLM to explain moves in natural language like a grandmaster, replacing raw engine evaluations with contextual coaching narratives. It analyzes user games from Chess.com and Lichess with local Stockfish, detects recurring mistakes, and offers personalized chat and spaced repetition for blunders.