Jan Michael Sprenger

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Jan Michael Sprenger
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Jan Michael Sprenger at a chess tournament in 2016 (Gallipoli, Italy)
Country Germany
Born26 November 1982 (1982-11-26) (age 42)
Cologne, West Germany
Title Grandmaster (2018)
FIDE   rating 2468 (July 2025)
Peak rating 2537 (January 2008)

Jan Michael Sprenger (born 26 November 1982) is a German chess grandmaster and philosopher.

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Chess career

Born in 1982, Sprenger earned his international master title in 2001 and his grandmaster title in 2018. [1] [2] He is the No. 55 ranked German player as of March 2023. [3] Sprenger plays in the German Chess Bundesliga for the team of Schachfreunde Berlin and writes regularly on chess-related topics. [4]

Sprenger has started composing endgame studies in 2020. In 2023 he was awarded the FIDE Master title by the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC). [5]

Academic career

Sprenger holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Bonn (2008), specializing in philosophy of science, and worked afterwards at Tilburg University, where he was appointed professor in 2014. In 2017, he became professor of philosophy at the University of Turin.

Publications

2019. Bayesian Philosophy of Science (with Stephan Hartmann). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [6]

References

  1. ↑ 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2018, April 6-9, Minsk, Belarus FIDE
  2. ↑ Zwei neue deutsche Großmeister ChessBase
  3. ↑ Staff writer(s) (April 2018). "Federations Ranking – Germany". FIDE. Archived from the original on 2019-05-04. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
  4. ↑ Matchball Archived 2018-06-15 at the Wayback Machine Chess Bundesliga
  5. ↑ List of FIDE Masters for chess composition World Federation for Chess Composition
  6. ↑ Bayesian Philosophy of Science. Oxford University Press. 23 August 2019. ISBN   978-0-19-967211-0.


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