Lisa Schut

Lisa Schut
Lisa Schut at Amstelveen 2016
Personal information
Born (1994-07-06) 6 July 1994 (age 32)
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.

Chess career

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

She participated in the 2008 Chess Olympiad, 2010 Chess Olympiad, 2012 Chess Olympiad and the 2014 Chess Olympiad.

Schut won the silver medal at the 2012 World Youth Chess Championship (Girls U18) , and shared first place (bronze on tiebreak) at the 2010 World Youth Chess Championship (Girls U16) . 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.

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.