Frederic Friedel

Frederic Friedel

Frederic Alois Friedel, born in 1945, studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and in Oxford, graduating with a thesis on speech act theory and moral language. He started a university career but switched to science journalism, producing documentaries for German TV. He also joined an American sceptical society; CSICOP (now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry) and investigated/debunked several such claims.

In the early 1980s he did a feature on computer chess and artificial intelligence, making friends with many top chess players in the process. In 1985 he met Garry Kasparov and soon after that co-founded the chess database company ChessBase.

From 1983 to 2004 he edited the biggest computer chess magazine in the world, "Computerschach & Spiele", which recently became an online publication [http://computerschach.de] .

Frederic has been in close contact with many of the world's top chess players, including Kasparov, Anand, Kramnik, Leko, Topalov, Svidler, Short, the Polgar sisters and many others. Today he spends most of his time editing the very successful chess news page ChessBase.com.


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