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Eiko Bleicher, a German computer scientist, programmer, and author of the analysis tool for chess endgames, Freezer. Eiko Bleicher was student of Ingo Althöfer at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, and published a paper about Freezer's ideas, called Building Chess Endgame Databases for Positions with many Pieces using A-priori Information. . Eiko cooperates with Stefan Meyer-Kahlen. and is involved in co-developing Endgame Bitbases for Shredder, dubbed Shredderbases. Freezer is commercial, available through shredderchess.com.

=Photos= Eiko Bleicher, Frank Schneider, Chrilly Donninger, Karsten Müller

=Selected Publications=
 * Eiko Bleicher (2004). Building Chess Endgame Databases for Positions with many Pieces using A-priori Information. Lehrstuhl Mathematische Optimierung, Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany, pdf
 * Eiko Bleicher, Guy Haworth (2010). 6-Man Chess and Zugzwangs. Advances in Computer Games 12
 * Harold van der Heijden, Eiko Bleicher, Guy McCrossan Haworth (2010). Endgame table testing of studies, I. EG, Vol. 16, No. 180
 * Harold van der Heijden, Eiko Bleicher, Guy McCrossan Haworth (2010). Endgame table testing of studies, II. EG, Vol. 16, No. 181
 * Eiko Bleicher, Guy Haworth, Harold van der Heijden (2010). Data-Mining Chess Databases. ICGA Journal Vol. 33, No. 4
 * Guy Haworth, Eiko Bleicher, Harold van der Heijden (2011). Uniqueness in Chess Studies. ICGA Journal Vol. 34, No. 1
 * Guy Haworth, Harold van der Heijden, Eiko Bleicher (2011). Zugzwangs in Chess Studies. ICGA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2

=Forum Posts=
 * Re: Freezer vs. Wilhelm by Eiko Bleicher, CCC, May 18, 2005
 * Re: Freezer Endgame Tool by Eiko Bleicher, CCC, October 11, 2005

=External Links=
 * Welcome at Knowledge4IT
 * Welcome to the World of Freezer
 * Shredder Computer Chess Download - Freezer Endgame Analysis Tool

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