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Quantum Chess - #QuantumChess

Created by Chris Cantwell

A centuries old game of strategy taken to a new dimension. Use quantum moves to battle on a board that exists in quantum superposition.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Live QnA with Quantum Chess Creator Tonight!
about 9 years ago – Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 01:19:47 PM

Dear Backers,

Thank you for keeping us moving towards our stretch goals!

Tonight we have a very special LIVE Q&A with Chris Cantwell on Blab!  
This will be hosted by Actress Leah Cevoli
 
(who also happens to be our crowdfunding campaign manager) 

If you're not familiar with blab, you can join us and ask your questions in one of two ways:
1) Through the old-fashioned chat room
OR
2) Turn on your web-camera, and Leah will be accepting people into the guest seat so that you can ask your questions on-camera! 

Here's the link : https://t.co/NdgNmvNOcz 

 
Hope to see ya there!

Team QC

33 Hours Left! #QuantumChess
about 9 years ago – Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 01:19:44 PM

Dear Backers,

Just 33 Hours Left! 

If you missed last night's live Q&A with Chris Cantwell, you can watch the replay here. A lot of great questions from our backers, and some interesting stories never shared before! Big thanks to Actress Leah Cevoli for hosting it, as well as all of your hard work managing our campaign!  - https://blab.im/ef250b9bc98c4542a58b477301f88aed 


For those of you just joining us, you may have missed Paul Rudd's follow-up video to #AnyoneCanQuantum

Our Art Team is hard at work making improvements: 

If you haven't yet, check out the 3D Golem Knight by Ben Lee Hosac
https://skfb.ly/KDxA

This concept set designed by artist James Loy Martin: 

 
And More Concept Art in the facebook gallery: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1020402461331228.1073741829.937729769598498&type=3 

There is still time to grab some add-on bonuses!
Add $10 to your pledge for a Quantum Chess USB (min 16gb) - Details Here
Add $20 to your pledge for a Signed 8x10 from Anna Rudolf - Details Here
Add $25 to your pledge for a Quantum Chess T-Shirt - Details Here
Add $35 to your pledge for a Quantum Chess Hat - Details Here
Add $40 to your pledge for Combo Pack- Hat AND USB - Details Here
Add $60 to your pledge for Quantum Chess Hat, T-Shirt, USB Combo - Details Here

Please add $5 for US Shipping and $10 for International Shipping!
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THANK YOU! We couldn't have gotten this far without you!
And we have 33 hours left to go as far as we can! 

Please make sure to leave a comment HERE - this will show the Kickstarter community that you support this project and will help us to reach the popular pages! You can also join the very lively discussion happening over there about Quantum Moves! 

Please be sure to share this link daily - www.PledgeQuantumChess.com - it will take your friends and family directly to this page!

Keep Connected with us!
www.facebook.com/QuantumChess
www.twitter.com/RealQChess
www.instagram.com/QuantumChess

THANKS Everyone!
 ~Team QC

12 Hours To Go, We Have A New Add-On and More Art!
about 9 years ago – Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 01:19:38 PM

Dear Backers,

We have 12 hours to go and we're 107% funded with 791 backers!

 Thank you so much for your continued support.  We have a new addon for everyone!  Want to show off your support for Quantum Chess to all of your friends and work colleagues? Grab these wallpapers!


YES! I'd like to Add-On the Quantum Chess Wallpaper Pack
: Great! Simply go to "Manage Pledge" and add $5 to your pledge amount for the QC Wallpapers. Make sure to place your NEW total pledge into the box, as Kickstarter won't do the Math for you. Then come back to THIS UPDATE and leave a comment claiming your QC Wallpapers (this will help us with record keeping), and send a message through Kickstarter too, so we can be sure to add this to your account. 

We also have some new art to show off, meet the Atlantis Set by Erin Kopach!

 We'll be adding more to the Facebook gallery soon, so stay tuned! Check it out here

There is still time to grab some of the other add-on bonuses we have too!

Add $10 to your pledge for a Quantum Chess USB (min 16gb) - Details Here

Add $20 to your pledge for a Signed 8x10 from Anna Rudolf - Details Here

Add $25 to your pledge for a Quantum Chess T-Shirt - Details Here

Add $35 to your pledge for a Quantum Chess Hat - Details Here 

Add $40 to your pledge for Combo Pack- Hat AND USB - Details Here

Add $60 to your pledge for Quantum Chess Hat, T-Shirt, USB Combo - Details Here

Please add $5 for US Shipping and $10 for International Shipping! 

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HUGE THANKS to our latest round of Backers! 

697) ghostwulf
698) Nathan Chadwick
699) Mike Dorman
700) Richard Marks
701) Gabriele Sarti
702) Andrew Penton
703) Galen Kaup
704) Joshua Hest
705) Gregory Battis
706) Morten Rustad
707) Nobyx
708) Danny Adame
709) Karl Kühberger
710) Jeff Petters
711) Anatolii Purchel
712) Sharen Davis
713) Alain Giaume
714) J Tyler Wright
715) Jason Blade
716) Brian Heun
717) Yoram Batner
718) Joshua Selinger
719) Melissa Bollen
720) Jeff Lowe
721) Gwilym Newton
722) Mc
723) Archie Wilson
724) Janning
725) Serguei Chmakov
726) Dominik Csiba
727) Kevlario
728) rookie
729) Bill Willett
730) Gleb Smirnov
731) Shubham Sharma
732) Marc Popplewell
733) D Miles
734) Roland Keil
735) Henri Ruuki
736) Peter
737) Robby
738) Darren Lute
739) Shek
740) Samm Bordador
741) David Sharg
742) Adam Rajski
743) Brooks Moses
744) Jeremy Quijano
745) Joseph Wang
746) Jason Morales
747) Diny81
748) Yevgeniy Barkalov
749) John
750) McCrazy
751) Larry Birdsong Jr.
752) Ash
753) NoName McGee
754) Gobbo
755) Francesco Musella
756) Sam Hay
757) Abhijeet
758) Anton Latcenko
759) Eric Johnson
760) Neil Jenkins
761) Jonathan
762) John Smith
763) Harrison Felice
764) Patrick Brown
765) Jeffrey Lembcke
766) Marco Smeulders
767) Christopher Karim
768) Mark Penders
769) Marek Werno
770) Wiremu Shepherd
771) David Holcer
772) Bradley Russo
773) JulianM
774) Nicholas Moore
775) Chong Thow Chuang
776) SHEILA S
777) Chris Castaldi
778) Ulises Alexander Arguelles Monjaraz
779) Kenneth Zheng
780) Greg Tito
781) Jeff Lewis
782) Rasmus Gorm Petersen
783) 3lb Games
784) WroughtIron9
785) Bryan Bischof
786) Wilson Cheong
787) Nathan Humble
788) Joseph Durrant
789) David Denton
790) Dillon Komarnycky
791) Cometary Orbit
792) John Kelbaugh
793) Quake Phil
794) Thorben Swirski
795) Kelvin Fichter
796) Mark Ukulele Young
797) ROBsLab
798) Eric Stiner
799) Dan Garber
800) Juan Antonio Navarro Pérez

THANK YOU! We couldn't have gotten this far without you. And we have 12 hours left to go as far as we can. Please make sure to leave a comment HERE - this will show the Kickstarter community that you support this project and will help us to reach the popular pages. You can also join the very lively discussion happening over there. 

Please be sure to share this as much as you can today - www.PledgeQuantumChess.com - it will take your friends and family directly to this page. 

Keep Connected with us! 

www.facebook.com/QuantumChess 

www.twitter.com/RealQChess

www.instagram.com/QuantumChess 

 THANKS Everyone!
 ~Team QC

We hit GOAL!! 4 Days left to hit Stretch Goals!
about 9 years ago – Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 05:22:48 PM


Dear Backers!!

We did it!  YOU DID it!!    

 We have hit our goal AND still have time on the clock to try to get some of these stretch goals happening!

Let's take a look at our first two STRETCH GOALS!

With 50K we can bring you a more robust and scalable networking framework with lobby functionality!

 With 75K we can bring you a simple computer opponent so that you can learn the mechanics of the game, as well as a set of training puzzles!

How in the world can we get to $30,000 to $75,000 with just 4 days left?!  WORD OF MOUTH!   Make sure to tell all of your friends on social media that the project you believe in has hit it's goal and has just a few days left if they want to be a part of this! Because YOU believed in us enough to make this happen, others will believe in us too! 

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We also have many Bonus Add-Ons available to all of our backers!

Add $10 to your pledge for a Quantum Chess USB (min 16gb) - Details Here
Add $20 to your pledge for a Signed 8x10 from Anna Rudolf - Details Here
Add $25 to your pledge for a Quantum Chess T-Shirt - Details Here
Add $35 to your pledge for a Quantum Chess Hat - Details Here
Add $40 to your pledge for Combo Pack- Hat AND USB - Details Here
Add $60 to your pledge for Quantum Chess Hat, T-Shirt, USB Combo - Details Here

Please add $5 for US Shipping and $10 for International Shipping!

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In case you missed the epic game of Quantum Chess between Chris and Anna Rudolf, you can watch both full matches, courtesy of Chess24.com ! 

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Quantum Chess Press:

A great interview with Chris Cantwell and his advisor Quantum Physicist Spiros Michalkis by Huff Post Columnist and International Chess Champion A.J. Steigman.   

Please do click and read, as we're told the more readers we get the better chances of staying on the front page of The Huffington Post Business.

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More Great News!  We are officially GREENLIT on STEAM!  Thank you for all of you who up-voted our project!

 
BIG THANKS TO OUR LATEST BACKERS!!   Thanks to all of you, we are funded!
643) Alex Dahl
644) Robin Clark
645) Beverly
646) Andrew J Swegler
647) Timothy Cahan
648) Justin Conover
649) Nicholas Recker
650) Christian Pesantes
651) Anastasia Korolov
652) Skirmish Entertainment
653) Night2078
654) Dylan Sinnott
655) Janluak
656) Ben
657) Stephen Herlihy
658) Mark Doezé
659) Willem-Jan Van Zeist
660) Antoine Cameron
661) Oliver Binkiewicz Jones
662) Layth Ezzeir
663) Jx1200
664) Vasyl Purchel
665) Howard Lovatt
666) Seirra
667) Allie Wilkins
668) Paul Schwent
669) Jon Stephan
670) Anthony
671) James Glasbrenner
672) Alex Telfar
673) Rob Macdonald
674) Crystal Yuen
675) Lauren DeMotta
676) Chad Langford
677) David Neves
678) Xavi P.
679) Johann Kraska
680) gary
681) Matthew Crowe
682) Trevor Kurz
683) Gary Church
684) Walter Phu
685) Alvin Ao
686) Jessica Cooper
687) Ray Ion
688) Fonsi
689) Ankit
690) Melanie Waterman
691) Brandon Wroblewski
692) Jay Doshi
693) Jeston
694) Adrian F
695) Phan Anh Tuan
696) Tory Republic

Thank you to each and every one of you!   This is a team effort! There are a lot of people working hard behind the scenes to help make this happen, but none of it would be possible without your backing support! 

THANK YOU!

Please make sure to leave a comment HERE - this will show the Kickstarter community that you support this project and will help us to reach the popular pages! You can also join the very lively discussion happening over there about Quantum Moves!

Please be sure to share this link daily - www.PledgeQuantumChess.com - it will take your friends and family directly to this page!

Keep Connected with us!
www.facebook.com/QuantumChess
www.twitter.com/RealQChess
www.instagram.com/QuantumChess

THANKS Everyone!
 ~Team QC

Almost There, 86% Funded! New Rewards! New LiveStreams! New Art!
about 9 years ago – Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 09:40:11 AM

Dear Backers,

We are almost to our base goal of $30,000, thank you for your continued support!

We have some really exciting announcements, including TWO Live Stream Challenges and a Podcast Interview!

Live Stream Challenge #1

- Sunday (tomorrow) at 8pm PST you can join Chris Cantwell and Kevin Yazdi, the host of Madness Method Operation, once again on Twitch.  Watch the game in action while artist, Ben Lee Hosac, streams some new art developments!
Tune In Here: http://www.Twitch.Tv/MadnessMethodOperation 


And speaking of Art Developments, we've added some new concept art to the Facebook Gallery HERE
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Podcast Interview!

- Monday (2/22) - Chris Cantwell will be on the Talk Nerdy podcast with Cara Santa Maria.   More Info at http://carasantamaria.com/podcast/
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Live Stream Challenge #2!   

Thursday (2/25) at 10am PST - Chris has been challenged by Olympic Chess Player, International Master, and Woman Grandmaster, Anna Rudolf!

This will be live streamed via Chess 24.com and can be viewed at https://chess24.com/en/live/video  

Chris seems worried to be going up against a Grandmaster. However, Anna is worried that she doesn't know a whole lot about Quantum Physics... this should be interesting!
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AND.... we have a new Reward Level!


For those of you who don't want to change your level, but WANT that T-Shirt, here's what you do.

YES! I'd like to Add-On a Quantum Chess T-Shirt: Great! Simply go to "Manage Pledge" and add $25 to your pledge amount for the QC T-Shirt. Make sure to place your NEW total pledge into the box, as Kickstarter won't do the Math for you. Then come back to THIS UPDATE and leave a comment claiming your T-Shirt (this will help us with record keeping), and send a message through Kickstarter too, so we can be sure to add this to your account.  We will collect sizes after the Kickstarter ends.  And please be sure to add $5 shipping for US orders and $10 shipping for International Orders 

Previously announced Bonus Add-Ons 
Add $10 to your pledge for a Quantum Chess USB (min 16gb) - Details HERE
Add $20 to your pledge for a Signed 8x10 from Grandmaster Anna Rudolf - Details Here Add $35 to your pledge for a Quantum Chess Hat -Details HERE
Add $40 to your pledge for Quantum Chess Combo Pack- Hat AND USB - Details HERE

Please be sure to add $5 shipping for US orders and $10 shipping for International Orders

As always.. REMEMBER! **Kickstarter is ALL or NOTHING!**
We can't do this without your support!

Please make sure to leave a comment HERE - this will show the Kickstarter community that you support this project and will help us to reach the popular pages. You can also join the very lively discussion happening over there about Quantum Moves.

We also have a new AMA thread on the Gamedev subreddit, join in and upvote! https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/46cn6s/quantum_chess/

Please be sure to share this link daily - www.PledgeQuantumChess.com - it will take your friends and family directly to this page! 

Keep Connected with us!
www.facebook.com/QuantumChess
www.twitter.com/RealQChess
www.instagram.com/QuantumChess 

THANKS Everyone!
 ~Team QC