[sgjohnson]

> I told him that I was planning to recruit a "plausibly-good" chess player to use the shoes to win the world championship,

Would one be able to clear a metal detector with this? I doubt it.

[mda]

With enough miniaturization, maybe? There are computers small as a grain of sand, sure they don't run stockfish yet, but not impossible.

e.g. on 3nm node it s possible to fit 300million transistors per mm2.

[sgjohnson]

> sure they don't run stockfish yet

You don’t need to run stockfish on it. Thin client would suffice.