Mel Merel currently lives in Pirmasens, Germany.
He works in the field of Computer Science (IT) as a Network Administrator at a company in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
He is the author of 3 chess books:
* Treatise of forced mate * Tratado del mate forzado * Abhandlung des gezwungenen Matt (ISBN 978-3-000-22176-7)
* Problems of forced mate * Problemas del mate forzado * Probleme des gezwungenen Matt (ISBN 978-3-000-22177-4)
* Historic positions of forced mate * Posiciones históricas del mate forzado * Historische Stellungen des gezwungenen Matt (ISBN 978-3-000-23685-3)
He designed every single detail of the books. This means layout, cover and graphics.
He also developed and designed his own chess fonts (TTF) for these books.
He wrote the preface of the books in 3 languages (English, Spanish and German). Every book with 3 languages.
http://books.milliondollar3dgame.com/