alt Hacker News> As it turns out, the majority of the Elo gains (+720 of the +1335 gained) can be attributed to better programming, and not better hardware.
It's not so easy, a lot of that better programming can be attributed to better hardware, it wouldn't have been possible to implement NNUE or Fishtest without modern hardware.
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aaron695 • today at 1:45 PM
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I agree. It is hard to make a separation between what is possible thanks to programming vs hardware. It is only easy to analyze post factum that certain ideas worked. Maybe there are also other factors that are important - time, availability of hardware, knowledge dissemination. What would be possible if the hardware stopped improving.