Frederic Friedel
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Frederic Alois Friedel',
a German graduate linguist, science-, chess- and computer chess journalist, in 1986 with game database developer Matthias Wüllenweber co-founder and participator of ChessBase [2]. With his fellow Dieter Steinwender, Frederic Friedel was publisher and editor of Computerschach und Spiele, from the first edition in 1983 until 2004.
In the late 70s and early 80s, Friedel featured computer chess in the German television, for instance the match of David Levy versus Chess 4.8, with Volker Arzt, ZDF 1979 [3]. Friedel has close relations with world's top chess players [4], and was member of Kasparov's team during his match versus Deep Blue in 1997 [5].
Contents
Photos
Belle vs CHAOS, WCCC 1980, Thompson, Friedel, Berman [6], Swartz, Donskoy [7]
Thompson, Friedel, Condon, Slate, and Blanchard, WCCC 1983, Nuchess-Belle 1-0 [8]
See also
Selected Publications
1979
- Frederic Friedel, Frieder Schwenkel (1979). Computerschach ’79. (German) [10]
1980 ...
- Frederic Friedel (1980). Computerschach. (German) [11]
- Frederic Friedel (1984). Move from the East. Personal Computer World, January 1984 [12] » WMCCC 1983
- Frederic Friedel (1984). The European Microcomputer-Chess Championship - 6th PCW. ICCA Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1 » European MCC 1983
- Frederic Friedel (1985). Das perfekte Endspiel (2). Computerschach und Spiele Vol. 2, No. 4 (German)
- Frederic Friedel (1985). Fehler bei Capablanca. Computerschach und Spiele Vol. 2, No. 5 (German)
- Frederic Friedel (1988). Das perfekte Endspiel - auf Atari ST. Computerschach und Spiele, No. 2 (German) » Atari ST
- Frederic Friedel (1989). Auto-Analyse und TPA - Die neuen Funktionen des Kasparov Renaissance. Computerschach und Spiele, No. 5 (German) [13] » Kasparov Renaissance
1990 ...
- Frederic Friedel (1990). Chessbase. ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3
- Frederic Friedel (1990). Elektronischer Sekundant ein Fidelity-Computer bei der Schach-WM in New-York. Computerschach und Spiele 6/90, (German)
- Frederic Friedel (1991). Not the Mother of all Chess Machines. ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2 » Deep Thought [14]
- Frederic Friedel, Michael Valvo (1992). The 7th World Computer-Chess Championship. Results and Games. ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4 » WCCC 1992
- Frederic Friedel, Dieter Steinwender (1993). Results and selected games of the 12th World Microcomputer Chess Championship. ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4 » WMCCC 1993
- Frederic Friedel (1994). Pentium Genius Beats Kasparov: A Report on the Intel Speed Chess Grand Prix in London. ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3
- Frederic Friedel, Frans Morsch (1994). The Intel World Chess Express Challenge. ICCA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2
- Dieter Steinwender, Frederic Friedel (1995). Schach am PC Bits und Bytes im königlichen Spiel, Markt und Technik Buch 1995, ISBN: 978-3-87791-522-6 (German)
- Frederic Friedel (1998). Advanced Chess by Kasparov and Topalov. ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2
- Frederic Friedel (1999). The Advanced Chess Match between Anand and Karpov. ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3
2000 ...
- Helmut Pfleger, Frederic Friedel (2001). Cheating in Chess. Advances in Computer Games 9 [15][16]
- Frederic Friedel (2004). Schachmatt in Virtual Reality. on Kasparov versus X3D Fritz 2003 from Computerschach und Spiele Online, Probeausgabe (German)
- Frederic Friedel (2004). Revolution im Computerschach, covers WCCC 2004, from Computerschach und Spiele Online, Probeausgabe (German)
- Frederic Friedel (2005). Interview mit Ali Nasir und Stefan Meyer-Kahlen. Computerschach und Spiele Online, Probeausgabe (German)
- Matthias Wüllenweber, Frederic Friedel, Mathias Feist (2006). Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz 10: Computer wins match by 4-2. ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 4 » Kramnik versus Deep Fritz 2006
ChessBase
2005 ...
- Ephraim Kishon, 1924 – 2005, obituary by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase, February 04, 2005 » Ephraim Kishon
- Adriaan de Groot, chess psychologist (1914–2006) by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase, August 16, 2006 » Adriaan de Groot
- Can computers be made to appreciate beauty? by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, September 02, 2009 » Azlan Iqbal
2010 ...
- From the Z1 to the Singularity – Zuse's 100th birthday by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, June 22, 2010 » Konrad Zuse
- Remembering Werner Harenberg (1) by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, March 04, 2014 » Levy versus Chess 1979
- The Man vs. The Machine documentary by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, October 26, 2014 » Kasparov versus Deep Blue 1997
2015 ...
- Just one of 17,823,400,766 positions by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, April 23, 2015 » Endgame Tablebases
- Kasparov and thirty years of computer chess by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, June 06, 2015 » Kasparov simul vs 32 micro Hamburg 1985
- The Max Euwe Center in peril by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, August 13, 2015 » Max Euwe
2016
- Computer beating top human Go professional by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, March 10, 2016 » AlphaGo
- Komodo is World Computer Chess Champion by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, July 05, 2016 » Komodo, WCCC 2016
- The wrong bishop by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, May 16, 2016 » Wrong Color Bishop and Rook Pawn
- The wrong bishop – part two by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, May 22, 2016 » Cray Blitz, Mikhail Botvinnik, WCCC 1983
- Cray-1 – the eight million dollar super-computer by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, September 23, 2016 » Cray-1, Cray Blitz [17]
2017
- Hans Berliner, chess master and programmer, dies at 87 by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase New, January 18, 2017 » Hans Berliner
- A chess problem holds the key to human consciousness? by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, March 16, 2017 » Penrose Puzzle
- Computer chess history – knowledge vs brute force by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, March 21, 2017 » Levy versus Chess 1978
- Ranking chess players according to the quality of their moves by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, April 27, 2017 » Jean-Marc Alliot, Stockfish
- John Nunn these days by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, December 08, 2017 » John Nunn
- Kasparov on Deep Learning in chess by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, December 13, 2017 » AlphaZero, Deep Learning
2018
- New Year's present: Progressive Chess by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, January 01, 2018 » Matej Guid, Vito Janko
Spiegel
- Schach: Lückenlose Fahndung Der Spiegel 4/1992, January 20, 1992 (German) » ChessBase (Database)
External Links
- Frederic Friedel from Wikipedia
- Who is Who at ChessBase from ChessBase auf Helgoland June 16, 2004
- ChessBase is 25 – everything 25% off in our shop from ChessBase News, May 19, 2011
- Man behind the game-changing ChessBase by P.K. Ajith Kumar, The Hindu, November 17, 2013 [18]
References
- ↑ Frederic Friedel, Image by David Monniaux, June 25, 2012, Frederic Friedel from Wikipedia.de
- ↑ Christmas dinner on a train – meet the ChessBase team from ChessBase News December 23, 2003
- ↑ ZDF: IM David Levy 1979 gegen Chess 4.8 from schach-computer wiki
- ↑ Bobby sei Dank, Der Spiegel 47/1985, November 18, 1985, (German) pdf
- ↑ Garry Kasparov vs. Deep Blue Multimedia Report by Frederic Friedel from ChessBase Daily Chess Columns
- ↑ Militärischer Wert Der Spiegel 24/1982, pdf (German)
- ↑ Photo by Monroe Newborn from The Computer History Museum
- ↑ Photo Thompson, Friedel, Condon, Slate, and Blanchard at the 4th World Computer Chess Championship in New York City, New York 1983 - Gift of Monroe Newborn from The Computer History Museum
- ↑ ICGA Reference Database (pdf)
- ↑ CSVN supplement site 3
- ↑ Ars Electronica 1980
- ↑ Publication Archive 1984 from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
- ↑ Saitek Renaissance from Schachcomputer.info Wiki
- ↑ CeBIT, Hannover 1991 - 365Chess.com Tournaments
- ↑ ACC '99: Scientific Program
- ↑ Cheating in chess from Wikipedia
- ↑ How fast was the Cray? by Sean Evans, CCC, September 23, 2016
- ↑ World Chess Championship 2013 - Wikipedia