Frieder Schwenkel

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Frieder Schwenkel, (1933 - 2012) was a German mathematician, computer scientist, and professor at University of Hamburg. He received his Ph.D. in 1966 on the semantic theory in programming languages at University of Tübingen where his advisors were Karl Longin Zeller and Hellmuth Kneser. Already during the early 60s in Tübingen, along with his fellow Gerd Veenker, Frieder Schwenkel developed a particular interest in non-numeric computation such as game playing and theorem proving. He was a strong chess player and early computer chess expert and promoter. During the late 70s, he motivated his students Alexander Reinefeld, Manfred Allers, Dirk Hauschildt and Dieter Steinwender to work on computer chess and supported the development of Murks and MicroMurks. In 1982/83, along with Dieter Steinwender, Frieder Schwenkel played a correspondence chess game versus Belle.

=Selected Publications=

1960 ...

 * Frieder Schwenkel (1965). Rekursive Wortfunktionen Über Unendlichen Alphabeten. Mathematical Logic Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 2 (German)
 * Frieder Schwenkel (1966). Semantische Theorie der Programmsprachen. Ph.D. thesis, University of Tübingen, advisors Karl Longin Zeller and Hellmuth Kneser (German)

1970 ...

 * Frederic Friedel, Frieder Schwenkel (1979). Computerschach ’79. (German)
 * Frieder Schwenkel (1979). Berating the ratings system. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 11, pp. 77 » Ratliff
 * Hans-Peter Ketterling, Frieder Schwenkel, Ossi Weiner (1980). Schach dem Computer - Spielen und lernen mit dem Schach-Computer. Mosaik-Verlag (German)

1980 ...

 * Hans-Peter Ketterling, Frieder Schwenkel, Ossi Weiner (1983). Schach dem Computer - Spielen und lernen mit dem Schach-Computer. Wilhelm Goldmann GmbH (German)

=External Links=
 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Frieder Schwenkel
 * SCHACH: Computer bald Weltmeister? Der Spiegel 13/1979, March 26, 1979 (German) » Chess 4.8
 * Computer als Richter und Arzt? Der Spiegel 17/1979, April 23, 1979 (German)
 * Schach der Schachmaschine by Wolfram Runkel, Zeit Online, September 24, 1982 (German)

=References=

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