🐙 https://github.com/d-mckee/qhess

🌐 https://host.edwardgao.com/Qhess/

Overview

This project was created for HackSU 2021 along with Devon McKee and Alex Wallen. The theme of the hackathon was board games. We added a quantum twist to chess, hence, Qhess.

Since this was a 1.5-day hackathon, and the scope of our project was way larger than reasonable for a 1.5-day project, it was not completely finished. Most of the first day of the hackathon was spent discussing the rules and theory behind the game, leaving us with only a day to implement it.

What I learned

• Numerically calculate random numbers based on the probability density function of a valid range of values
• Multi-client communication with socket.io

How to run

After downloading the repository, assuming you have Node.js installed, run the following command in the srv and cln directories to install the necessary Node modules:

npm install

Then, run the following command in the srv directory:

npm start

Brainstorming notes

Here are some screenshots of the idea during brainstorming:

Design (quantum moves)

Wave functions

Instead of regular, deterministic moves, when a player wants to move a chess piece, they must choose its direction and energy level instead. This determines the shape of its wave function, which is a probability density function of where the chess piece will land in the next time step.