Jan Michael Sprenger
{{Short description|German chess player and philosopher}}
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|caption = Jan Michael Sprenger at a chess tournament in 2016 (Gallipoli, Italy)
|country = Germany
|birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|26 November 1982}}
|birth_place = Cologne, West Germany
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|title = Grandmaster (2018)
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|peakrating = 2537 (January 2008)
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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.[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] FIDE[https://de.chessbase.com/post/zwei-neue-deutsche-grossmeister-2 Zwei neue deutsche Großmeister] ChessBase He is the No. 55 ranked German player as of March 2023.{{cite web|url=https://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml?ina=1&country=GER|title=Federations Ranking – Germany|author=Staff writer(s)|publisher=FIDE|date=April 2018|access-date=2018-04-11|archive-date=2019-05-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504133201/https://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml?ina=1&country=GER|url-status=dead}} Sprenger plays in the German Chess Bundesliga for the team of Schachfreunde Berlin and writes regularly on chess-related topics.[http://www.schachbundesliga.de/bundesliga/matchball Matchball] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615214918/https://www.schachbundesliga.de/bundesliga/matchball |date=2018-06-15 }} Chess Bundesliga
Sprenger has started composing endgame studies in 2020. In 2023 he was awarded the FIDE Master title by the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC).[https://www.wfcc.ch/Titles/fm/ List of FIDE Masters for chess composition] World Federation for Chess Composition
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.{{Cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/bayesian-philosophy-of-science-9780199672110?cc=it&lang=en&#|isbn = 978-0-19-967211-0|title = Bayesian Philosophy of Science|date = 23 August 2019|publisher = Oxford University Press}}
References
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External links
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- [https://www.laeuferpaar.de Personal website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101064551/http://www.laeuferpaar.de/ |date=2020-11-01 }}
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Category:Sportspeople from Cologne
Category:Academic staff of Tilburg University
Category:University of Bonn alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Turin
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