Scrotus on Nostr: Yes. Traditional chess engins like deep blue, shredder, Houdini etc relied on ...

Yes. Traditional chess engins like deep blue, shredder, Houdini etc relied on heuristics and brute force to beat the best humans.
Now next gen engines like Leela run on machine learning and require specialized hardware. 'Brute force' is not how they run but they still require lots of computing power, but the amount of computing power they need to beat humans is relatively tame.