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The World’s First Quantum Chess Tournament Announces a Winner

Quantum chess allows for superposition, entanglement, and interference
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Perimeter Institute’s Aleksander Kubica won:

So what’s quantum chess?

It’s a complicated version of regular chess that incorporates the quantum concepts of superposition, entanglement, and interference. “It’s like you’re playing in a multiverse but the different boards [in different universes] are connected to each other,” said Caltech physicist Spiros Michalakis during a livestream of the tournament. “It makes 3D chess from Star Trek look silly.”

Jennifer Ouellette, “We have a winner in the world’s first quantum chess tournament” at Ars Technica

Okay: Superposition: Elementary particles of our universe are not in one single specific place, they are only in a probable one.

Entanglement: What happens to one elementary particle affects any other particle entangled with it, no matter how far they are apart.

Interference: You can stop a quantum process by measuring it long enough (the quantum Zeno effect).

So quantum chess must be played by different rules.

Meanwhile, here’s Dr. Spock playing Charlie in Charlie X (1966): “Captain Kirk must learn the limits to the power of a 17-year-old boy with the psychic ability to create anything and destroy anyone.”


You may also enjoy: “Spooky action at a distance” makes sense— in the quantum world. Einstein never liked quantum mechanics but each transistor in your cell phone is a quantum device. The fact that the spooky quantum world is real means that quantum computing could greatly reduce computers’ drastic environment impact.


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The World’s First Quantum Chess Tournament Announces a Winner