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As both a software person and a chess player, I really dislike this site. My impression of it, from maybe two hours total spent on it, is that it is slow and clunky and full of of "gamification" techniques and dark patterns intended to maximize "engagement". It's unfortunate. John Bartholomew (internet-famous chess player) seems like a nice guy but the site he co-founded has apparently been taken over by marketing people.
I have wondered how such a tiny distribution is possible. I'm thinking of the kernel, in particular--when I try to compile my own kernel with no module support and only the drivers I need built-in ("make localyesconfig" will do this), it comes out like 10MB compressed. And I am no kernel expert, so it's hard for me to tell which settings I can change and what will happen if I do.
Then when I boot the most bare-bones system with /bin/sh as init, it is using like 70mb of RAM doing nothing.
So anyway, I found that you can just grab their kernel config, I'll be curious to see how it differs from more typical configs: http://tinycorelinux.net/13.x/x86/release/src/kernel/config-...
Windows 95 ran in 8 MB of RAM. (Well, officially 4 MB for marketing purposes, but no one thought that was actually enough.) I would be really impressed to see a graphical Linux environment that could run in that amount of RAM.