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Reiner Seidel [1] Reiner Seidel, (Rainer Seidel [2] [3])

a German psychologist, associate professor at Free University of Berlin [4], chess player and chess theorist who coined a scientific Chess theory as introduced in his 1987 book Grundlagen einer wissenschaftlichen Schachtheorie [5], also topic of two Advances in Computer Chess Conferences and various ICCA Journal articles.

Selected Publications

Reiner Seidel (1985). Chess, how to Understand the Exceptions! ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1
Reiner Seidel (1985). Grammatical Description of Chess Positions, Data-Base versus Human Knowledge. ICCA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3
Reiner Seidel (1986). Deriving Correct Pattern Descriptions and Rules for the KRK Endgame by Deductive Methods. Advances in Computer Chess 4
Reiner Seidel (1986). What Constitutes Optimal Play? ICCA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1
Rainer Seidel (1987). Grundlagen einer wissenschaftlichen Schachtheorie. Verlag für Schachtheorie (German)
Dap Hartmann (1987). Reiner Seidel: Grundlagen einer wissenschaftlichen Schachtheorie. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Review)
Reiner Seidel (1988). Reply to Dap Hartmann’s Review of “Grundlagen einer wissenschaftlichen Schachtheorie”. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1
Dap Hartmann (1988). Rejoinder to Seidel’s Reply. ICCA Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1
Reiner Seidel (1989). A Model of Chess Knowledge - Planning Structures and Constituent Analysis. Advances in Computer Chess 5