Jan Michael Sprenger
| Jan Michael Sprenger | |
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.jpg) Sprenger in 2008 | |
| Country | Germany |
| Born | 26 November 1982 (age 41) Cologne, West Germany |
| Title | Grandmaster (2018) |
| FIDE rating | 2468 (November 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2537 (January 2008) |
Jan Michael Sprenger (born 26 November 1982) is a German chess grandmaster and philosopher.
Chess career
[edit]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]
Academic career
[edit]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
[edit]2019. Bayesian Philosophy of Science (with Stephan Hartmann). Oxford: Oxford University Press.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2018, April 6-9, Minsk, Belarus FIDE
- ^ Zwei neue deutsche Großmeister ChessBase
- ^ Staff writer(s) (April 2018). "Federations Ranking – Germany". FIDE. Archived from the original on 2019-05-04. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ Matchball Archived 2018-06-15 at the Wayback Machine Chess Bundesliga
- ^ Bayesian Philosophy of Science. Oxford University Press. 23 August 2019. ISBN 978-0-19-967211-0.
External links
[edit]- Jan Michael Sprenger player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Jan Michael Sprenger rating card at FIDE
- Personal website Archived 2020-11-01 at the Wayback Machine
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