Since 1997 we've had 12 Moore's law doublings in transistor count (4096x), and chess algorithms have improved quite a bit. http://www.quora.com/How-does-Deep-B

Since 1997 we've had 12 Moore's law doublings in transistor count (4096x), and chess algorithms have improved quite a bit. http://www.quora.com/How-does-Deep-Blues-playing-strength-and-algorithms-compare-to-modern-chess-engines-eg-Houdini http://www.quora.com/How-does-Deep-Blues-playing-strength-an... http://en.chessbase.com/post/komodo-8-the-smartphone-vs-desktop-challenge http://en.chessbase.com/post/komodo-8-the-smartphone-vs-desk...