Dear Jacob,

> Why is it called "queen of spades?"

As it happened, I was reading Alexander Pushkin's "Queen of Spades" while 
writing Qs. The book touches upon the subject of how close you can get to 
win everything and still lose it all. I thought that this was relevant for 
a stochastic search, and so the program got baptised.

Nicholas


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