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by btilly 3122 days ago
Yes. Nowhere near as good as AlphaGo, but yes it would do better.

When Deep Blue beat Kasparov at chess, the program was not significantly better than what had been state of the art for the previous decade. They just threw enough hardware at it.

For chess programs there is an almost linear relationship between your search depth and effective ELO rating, and search depth went up by a constant with each generation of Moore's law.

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For chess programs there is an almost linear relationship between your search depth and effective ELO rating...

Maybe that's why chess has been "solved" by AI, and as of yet no real problems that trouble humanity have?