The top players in the poker world definitely like games and puzzles and to be challenged and push themselves. When I think about the overlap of poker and chess, I see both as intellectual challenges. It’s clear SIG values many of the characteristics that top poker and chess players have. Amateur Team East Chess Tournament in 2020 over several hundred teams, and we won the recent online North American Corporate Chess League Championship. Our employees have won many World Series of Poker bracelets, we placed first in the U.S. I am a World Series of Poker bracelet winner, co-author of The Mathematics of Poker, an expert-level chess player, and a quantitative researcher at ( SIG), a leading global quantitative trading firm.Īt SIG, we enjoy seeking out competition in both poker and chess.

This article was written by Bill Chen, an expert poker and chess player working at Susquehanna International Group ( SIG ), and is sponsored by SIG in conjunction with their support of the 2021 Bullet Chess Championship.