Jan Michael Sprenger (born 26 November 1982) is a

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chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

grandmaster and

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

Chess career

Born in 1982, Sprenger earned his

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title in 2001 and his grandmaster title in 2018. He is the No. 55 ranked German player as of March 2023. Sprenger plays in the German Chess Bundesliga for the team of ''Schachfreunde Berlin'' and writes regularly on chess-related topics. Sprenger has started composing

endgame studies In the game of chess, an endgame study, or just study, is a type of chess problem that starts with a composed position—i.e. one that has been made up rather than played in an actual game—where the goal is to find the essentially unique way for ...

in 2020. His preference goes to classical studies and themes, with attention to elegance of the positions, logical structured ideas and clarity of solutions. On World Championship of Chess Composition 2019-2021, he was ranked 17th. On World Championship of Chess Composition 2022-2024, he was ranked 6th, confirming his growth in the composition field. In 2023 he was awarded the FIDE Master title by the

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(WFCC).

Academic career

Sprenger holds a

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in philosophy from the

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(2008), specializing in

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, and worked afterwards at

Tilburg University Tilburg University is a Catholic research university specializing in the social and behavioral sciences, economics, law, business sciences, theology and humanities, located in Tilburg, Netherlands. Tilburg has a student population of about 19,1 ...

, where he was appointed professor in 2014. In 2017, he became professor of philosophy at the

University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian language, Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public university, public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the List ...

. He speaks fluently

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and

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languages.

Publications

2019. ''Bayesian Philosophy of Science'' (with

Stephan Hartmann Stephan Hartmann (born 1 March 1968) is a German philosopher and Professor of Philosophy of Science at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, known for his contributions to formal epistemology. Biography Hartmann was born in Limburg an der Lahn ...

). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

References

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