Dear all,
As part of our research in quantum computation, a Quantum Chess competition was held recently in the Queen’s School of Computing. I would like to thank the participants who played the new game with passion and skill. Congratulations to our two winners Ernesto Posse and Frank Qi.
My appreciation goes to Alice Wismath (2010 NSERC USRA) who wrote the computer simulation, developed a playing strategy, and organized the competition. For technical and promotional support, I am indebted to Dave Dove and Ben Hall (School of Computing) and to Kristyn Wallace (News and Media).
You can read about the competition here: http://www.cs.queensu.ca/aboutus/highlights/put_item.php?year=2010&highlight=QuantumChess.php
A Queen’s News story on Quantum Chess is here: http://www.queensu.ca/news/articles/queens-school-computing-takes-quantum-leap
For the technically oriented, the original paper is here: http://research.cs.queensu.ca/home/akl/techreports/quantumchessTR.pdf
And finally, you can play Quantum Chess here: http://research.cs.queensu.ca/Parallel/QuantumChess/QuantumChess.html
Cheers,
Selim