Lisa Schut

Lisa Schut
Lisa Schut at Amstelveen 2016
Personal information
Born (1994-07-06) 6 July 1994
Veldhoven, Netherlands
Chess career
CountryNetherlands
TitleWoman International Master (2009)
FIDE rating2259 (March 2018)
Peak rating2333 (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]

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. ^ "World Youth Chess Championships 2012 – India and Russia with greatest number of medals – Chessdom". 19 November 2012.
  5. ^ "World Youth Chess Championships 2010 Concluded".
  6. ^ Schut, Lisa; Tomašev, Nenad; McGrath, Thomas; Hassabis, Demis; Paquet, Ulrich; Kim, Been (2025). "Bridging the human–AI knowledge gap through concept discovery and transfer in AlphaZero". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122 (13) e2406675122. Bibcode:2025PNAS..12206675S. doi:10.1073/pnas.2406675122. PMC 12002201.