Writing | 2026

2026

Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996? A fun experiment where I back-port all the improvements we've made to chess engines over the last 30 years and run it on a 1996 Pentium Pro to see what we could have done.

How to win a best paper award (or, an opinionated take on how to do important research that matters): Thoughts after a decade of doing research, with a few lessons I've learned along the way.