Omar Syed

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Omar Syed, an Indian American computer engineer and blockchain / distributed ledger systems architect. Omar Syed is inventor of the game of Arimaa and founder/CEO of Arimaa.com. Syed was inspired by Garry Kasparov's defeat from Deep Blue to design a new game which could be played with a standard chess set, would be difficult for computers to play well, but would have rules simple enough for his then four-year-old son Aamir to understand.

=Selected Publications=

1995 ...

 * Omar Syed (1995). Applying Genetic Algorithms to Recurrent Neural Networks for Learning Network Parameters and Architecture. M.Sc. Thesis, Case Western Reserve University

2000 ...

 * Omar Syed, Aamir Syed (2003). Arimaa - A New Game Designed to be Difficult for Computers. ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2
 * Omar Syed, Jeroen Donkers (2004). The Arimaa match. ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2
 * Omar Syed, Jeroen Donkers (2005). The 2nd Arimaa Challenge Match. ICGA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2
 * Omar Syed (2009). The 6th Annual Arimaa Computer World Championship. ICGA Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1
 * Omar Syed (2009). The 6th Annual Arimaa Challenge Match. ICGA Journal, Vol. 32, No 2

2010 ...

 * Omar Syed (2015). The Arimaa Challenge: From Inception to Completion. ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1

=External Links=
 * Omar Syed | LinkedIn
 * Arimaa - Intuitively simple ... intellectually challenging
 * About the Designers
 * The Arimaa Public License

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