Frederic Friedel
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Science journalism
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, producing documentaries for German TV.
He also joined an American sceptical society; CSICOP (now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry) and investigated/debunked several such claims.
In the early 1980s he did a feature on computer chess and artificial intelligence, making friends with many top chess players in the process. In 1985 he met Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist, and one of the greatest chess players of all time....
and soon after that co-founded the chess database company ChessBase
ChessBase
ChessBase GmbH is a German company that markets chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates a server for online chess. Set up in 1998, it maintains and sells massive databases, containing most historic games, that permit analysis that had not been possible prior to computing...
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From 1983 to 2004 he edited the biggest computer chess
Computer chess
Computer chess is computer architecture encompassing hardware and software capable of playing chess autonomously without human guidance. Computer chess acts as solo entertainment , as aids to chess analysis, for computer chess competitions, and as research to provide insights into human...
magazine in the world, Computerschach & Spiele, which recently became an online publication http://computerschach.de.
Frederic has been in close contact with many of the world's top chess players, including Kasparov, Anand, Kramnik, Leko, Topalov, Svidler, Short, the Polgar sisters and many others. Today he spends most of his time editing the very successful chess news page ChessBase.com.