Lisa Schut

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Lisa Schut
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Lisa Schut at Amstelveen 2016
Personal information
Born (1994-07-06) 6 July 1994 (age 31)
Veldhoven, Netherlands
Chess career
Country Netherlands
Title Woman International Master (2009)
FIDE   rating 2259 (March 2018)
Peak rating 2333 (September 2013)

Lisa Schut (born 6 July 1994) is a Dutch chess player. Schut is currently inactive; her last rated game was a single game in March 2018, and prior to that, September 2015. [1]

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Chess career

Schut won the women's section of the Dutch Chess Championship in 2013.

She participated in the 2008 Chess Olympiad, [2] 2010 Chess Olympiad, 2012 Chess Olympiad [3] and the 2014 Chess Olympiad.

Schut won the silver medal at the 2012 World Youth Chess Championship (Girls U18) [4] , and shared first place (bronze on tiebreak) at the 2010 World Youth Chess Championship (Girls U16) [5] . In 2009 Schut won the bronze medal at the European Youth Chess Champinship (Girls U16) in Fermo.

Schut is first author of the paper titled "Bridging the Human–AI Knowledge Gap: Concept Discovery and Transfer in AlphaZero", published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in 2025. The paper introduces a method for extracting unique chess concepts from AlphaZero and shows these concepts can be successfully learned by grandmasters. [6]

References

  1. "Schut, Lisa". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
  2. "38th Chess Olympiad 2008 Women". chess-results.com.
  3. "40th Chess Olympiad Istanbul 2012 Women". chess-results.com.
  4. https://www.chessdom.com/world-youth-chess-championships-2012-india-and-russia-with-greatest-number-of-medals/#:~:text=U18%20Open%3A,U16%20Open
  5. https://old.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/4841-world-youth-chess-championships-2010-concluded.html#:~:text=Ziaziulkina%2C%20being%20the%20leader%20thoughout,series%20of%20three%20consecutive%20victories.
  6. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2406675122