Christian Seel

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Christian Seel
Christian Seel, Bonn 2011
Country	Germany
Born	(1983-12-28) 28 December 1983 (age 41) Troisdorf
Title	International Master (2004)
FIDE rating	2478 (January 2025)
Peak rating	2500 (April 2006)

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.

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

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

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).

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