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Martin Brown wrote:

The number of positions that needs to be considered is still far beyond
anything that a conventional computer can do now or in the future. If
someone gets a quantum computer to run a chess program all bets are off,
but until that day the best we can say is that it might be a draw.

IBM has a 7-Qbit Quantum Computer that uses Shor’s algorithm to
factor the number 15 into 3 and 5. D-Wave Systems claims to have
a working 28-Qbit Quantum Computer, but I have my doubts. Quantum
computers are hard to scale up. There are problems keeping the
Qbits stable long enough to finish the calculation, and as you
add more qubits, the problem gets worse. So we aren't there yet
and may never get there.

--
Guy Macon
http://www.guymacon.com/