Where: WEP HUB (University Library)
Description
Come and watch!
Susan Polgar is one of the most famous chess players in the world. She and her two sisters were child prodigies and grew to be the best women players ever.
Susan is recently retired from professional chess competition but is very active in chess promotion including successful chess coaching at Webster University, Missouri USA.
In this exhibition Susan will play 10 opponents simultaneously, moving from board-to-board to make her moves. The 10 opponents are all KAUST staff and students keen on chess:
- Mootaz Elnozahy, Dean of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering
- Kuanysh Khabibullin, PhD student
- Panagiotis Bilalis, Research Scientist
- Alexander Litvinenko, Research Scientist
- Mindaugas Kirkus, Postdoc
- Aibolat Dyuisenakhmetov, PhD student
- Abdullah Aldamin, Engineer staff
- Ali Behzad, Staff Scientist
- Nabiha Khan, School student
- Param Bagade, School student
Nigel Metge, Proponent of Susan’s visit, will be Arbiter.
Related events:
How AI Turned the Chess World Upside Down - Lecture - Monday, JAN 22 (12:20 - 13:30 PM)
In 1977 an IBM supercomputer 'Deep Blue' beat the reigning World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov in a 6 game chess match played under tournament conditions. This was the first time a machine beat a human at chess. It symbolized the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the potential for great good (and great harm) from machines that have aspects of human intelligence.
Susan Polgar is a pioneer for Women in Chess, and during this lecture she will share her remarkable story as well as how technology has changed the world of chess.
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine - Documentary - JAN 23 (7:00 PM, Auditorium Bdg. 20)
The screening of this documentary at 7:00 PM will follow Nate Hagens' keynote lecture Energy, Money and Technology - From the Lens of the Superorganism.
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Susan Polgar
Susan Polgar is a Hungarian-born American chess Grandmaster. She is famous for having been a child prodigy at chess, for being a pioneer for women in chess, and for being an advocate for chess in education. At the age of 15, she became the top-ranked woman player in the world, and remained ranked in the top three for the next 23 years. She was also the first woman in history to break the gender barrier by qualifying for the 1986 "Men's" World Championship. It is claimed that Susan composed her first chess problem at the age of four. She is considered the youngest composer of a published chess problem.
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