Jan Michael Sprenger
Jan Michael Sprenger at a chess tournament in 2016 (Gallipoli, Italy)
Country	Germany
Born	26 November 1982 (1982-11-26) (age 42) Cologne, West Germany
Title	Grandmaster (2018)
FIDE rating	2468 (February 2025)
Peak rating	2537 (January 2008)

Jan Michael Sprenger (born 26 November 1982) is a German chess grandmaster and philosopher.

Born in 1982, Sprenger earned his international master title in 2001 and his grandmaster title in 2018.^[1][2] He is the No. 55 ranked German player as of March 2023.^[3] Sprenger plays in the German Chess Bundesliga for the team of Schachfreunde Berlin and writes regularly on chess-related topics.^[4]

Sprenger has started composing endgame studies in 2020. In 2023 he was awarded the FIDE Master title by the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC).^[5]

Sprenger holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Bonn (2008), specializing in philosophy of science, and worked afterwards at Tilburg University, where he was appointed professor in 2014. In 2017, he became professor of philosophy at the University of Turin.

2019. Bayesian Philosophy of Science (with Stephan Hartmann). Oxford: Oxford University Press.^[6]

• Jan Michael Sprenger player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Jan Michael Sprenger rating card at FIDE
• Personal website Archived 2020-11-01 at the Wayback Machine

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