Frederic Alois Friedel (born 1945) studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the
University of Hamburg
The University of Hamburg (, also referred to as UHH) is a public university, public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('':de:Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen, ...
without graduating. He joined the American sceptical society CSICOP (now the
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), formerly known as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), is a program within the U.S. non-profit organization Center for Inquiry (CFI), which seeks to " ...
). In 1985, he met
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein on 13 April 1963) is a Russian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess Elo rating system, ra ...
and soon after that co-founded the chess database company
ChessBase
ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess. Founded in 1986, it maintains and sells large-scale databases containing the moves of recor ...
.
From 1983 to 2004, he edited the biggest
computer chess
Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to practice even in the absence of human opponents, and also provides opportunities for analysi ...
magazine in the world, ''Computer-Schach & Spiele'', which recently became an online publication. Friedel served as an advisor to Kasparov during his matches with
Deep Blue in 1996 and 1997.
References
External links
ChessProgramming - Frederic Friedel
Computer chess people
German chess players
Living people
1945 births
University of Hamburg alumni
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