Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?

A modern chess engine running on a 1996-era Pentium Pro computer could have easily defeated Garry Kasparov in 1996, despite IBM's Deep Blue requiring millions in development and specialized hardware to achieve the same feat. The author demonstrates this by running a custom port of Stockfish on a Pentium Pro from 1995, which achieves an Elo rating of approximately 3300—far exceeding Kasparov's rating of under 2800. Modern chess engines succeed through superior move selection and analysis algorithms rather than raw computational power, making specialized hardware unnecessary for human-level dominance in chess.