Christian Freeling

Christian Freeling ( born 1 February 1947 in Enschede) is a Dutch game designer.

In addition to his work as a mathematics teacher Freeling began to deal with games and their rules. The aim was to him not so much to create new games to work as rules of proven games and improve.

His most famous game is the connection game Havannah, published by Ravensburger and was both 1981 and 1982 taken in the selection list for game of the year. The game Grand Chess (also giant chess ) is a process a process invented by the world champion Capablanca chess variant dar. Free -form version taught it to chessvariants.com to the status of a recognized variant ( Recognized variant), something that only have about 25 done by many thousands.

Among the games that Freeling has developed, are Emergo ( along with Ed van Zon ), a further development of the game Laska - one coming from the World Chess Champion Lasker lady variant - and Dameo also a variant of checkers. Free -form son Demian invented at the age of seven years, the chess variant Congo, which is shown on the cover of David Pritchard's book The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants.

In addition to his work as a game designer is dedicated Freeling the breeding of raccoon dogs.