Jan Michael Sprenger Explained

Country:Germany
Birth Place:Cologne, West Germany
Grandmaster (2018)
Peakrating:2537 (January 2008)
Fideid:4646258

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

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]

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.[5]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?details=1&id=4646258&title=GM&pb=51 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2018, April 6-9, Minsk, Belarus
  2. https://de.chessbase.com/post/zwei-neue-deutsche-grossmeister-2 Zwei neue deutsche Großmeister
  3. Web site: Federations Ranking – Germany. Staff writer(s). FIDE. April 2018. 2018-04-11. 2019-05-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20190504133201/https://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml?ina=1&country=GER. dead.
  4. http://www.schachbundesliga.de/bundesliga/matchball Matchball
  5. Book: Bayesian Philosophy of Science. 978-0-19-967211-0. 23 August 2019. Oxford University Press.