Alice Wismath, a computer science student at Queen's University in Canada, has developed a form of chess in which the type of a given piece on the board is in a state of flux:
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In the quantum chess computer game created by undergraduate computer science student Alice Wismath, a piece that should be a knight could simultaneously also be a queen, a pawn or something else. The player doesn't know what the second state might be or which of the two states the piece will choose when it is moved.[...]
Wismath also chose new rules to make the game workable with its quantum twist. For example, her version of quantum chess requires a player to capture the king, which never changes to another piece, instead of merely delivering a checkmate. Also, pieces change states only when they land on black squares.
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Comments (6)
But if you've got him in checkmate, your next move is to take the king, and that would be the end of the game, no matter what the piece turns into after you've moved.
No need to make the game so complicated, though. Seems kinda silly.
BTW there was a 'fake advertisement' for Quantum Chess in Games Magazine years ago.
So basically, the bishops on white squares are non-quantum?
Btw, I found articles talking about this font dating 2009, don't know why this is making the news now. (Apparently they used to offer it for free for personal use back then.)
There are other (some free) dyslexia fonts around: http://www.dyslexic.com/fonts
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Annual subscription price including VAT structure
Elementary € 225, -
BB School € 445, -
Vocational higher education institution or € 775, -
Institutions and companies:
- Less than 5 employees € 225, -
- 5-30 employees € 445, -
- 31-100 employees € 775, -
- 101-1000 mederwerkers € 975, -
- Over 1000 employees € 1950, -
Exclusively for use on a website € 285, -
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ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION?? Are they kidding??
pass...
So for my small business of 9 people (one of whom is dyslexic)
5-30 at € 775 per year + shipping € 14.49...em not going to happen
This made me curious to know if there were other dyslexia friendly fonts available for a more sensible price, so far:
-specifically designed-
Lexia Readable available from K-Type
Sylexiad available from robsfonts
-seem to be useful for some people-
ClearviewADA from Terminal Design
Optima available from boldfonts
Sassoon Sans from clubtype
Myriad Pro available from Adobe (worth doing a search for)
Comic Sans look on your current windows machine under embarrassing fonts
What I don't understand is why anyone would pay an _annual_ fee just to use a font. I can understand a one-time download cost (say, $1 USD or something cheap like that), but an _annual_ fee? And not a cheap one at that!
I'm not dyslexic myself, but as a software engineer, I spend hours every day staring at text (source code). So any font that's easier to read interests me.
Treatments that play back recordings that have been lengthened have been shown to increase a dyslexic's visual cues on the letters and their representational sound. Some show a high recovery rate. The font is a great tool, but it's like learning to walk with a crutch on a broken leg rather than mending the bone.