He’s quite proud of his VGA routine, the first time he’s ever used DMA. We’re really impressed by [Arthur]’s chess engine – his is the first homebrew chess engine we’ve seen on Hack A Day.

The first machine had a vertical board. Of course, it couldn’t play a full game of chess. The machine always played white with a king and rook in a fixed position. The human’s lone black king ...

While supercomputers—most famously IBM’s Deep Blue —have long surpassed the world’s best human chess players, generative AI still lags behind due to their underlying programming parameters.