Christian Seel (born 28 December 1983) in Troisdorf) is a German player of chess and shogi, and an academic specializing in economics and game theory.

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; try the Find link tool for suggestions. (April 2019) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. (September 2021) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. (September 2021)

Christian Seel
Christian Seel, Bonn 2011
Country	Germany
Born	(1983-12-28) 28 December 1983 (age 38) Troisdorf
Title	International Master (2004)
FIDE rating	2486 (July 2022) 2474 (September 2018)
Peak rating	2500 (April 2006)

Academic career

Seel has a Ph.D. from the University of Bonn, and is an associate professor in the Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics at Maastricht University, where his research involves game theory and bounded rationality.[1]

Shogi

In shogi, Seel placed third in the 2012 German open championship, winning 2nd Dan.[2]

Chess

Seel has been an International Master (IM) in chess since 2004.[3] In the Chess Bundesliga, he plays first board for the SK Aachen team.[4]

He is the author of a chess opening book on the Antoshin variation of the Philidor Defence (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7). Originally in German, entitled Geheimwaffe Philidor (Chessgate, 2005), it has been translated into English as The Philidor: A Secret Weapon (Chessgate, 2007).

References

External links

• Official website
• Literature by and about Christian Seel in the German National Library catalogue
• Christian Seel publications indexed by Google Scholar