Jacob Aagaard (born 31 July 1973) is a Danish-Scottish
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...
grandmaster and the 2007
British Chess Champion. He is Scotland's third-highest rated player as of July 2021, with an
Elo rating of 2477. His peak rating was 2542. In 2004, he took second place in the
Scottish Chess Championship The Scottish Chess Championship is organised by Chess Scotland, formerly the Scottish Chess Association. It has been running since 1884, and nowadays takes the form of a nine-round tournament played over two weekends and the week in between. Auxili ...
. In 2005, he took first place in the Scottish Championship but was not a British citizen, so the title went to
Craig Pritchett. In 2012 he won the title; the first time he played and was eligible to win it. He is also a chess author and co-owner of
Quality Chess Quality Chess UK Ltd (known as Quality Chess) is a chess publishing company, founded in 2004 by International Master Ari Ziegler, Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard and Grandmaster John Shaw. The company is based in Glasgow.
The company focuses on qual ...
, a chess publishing house.
In 2011, Aagaard was awarded the title of
FIDE Senior Trainer.
In 2012, Aagaard won the Scottish Chess Championships with a score of 7/9.
Aagaard is the only chess writer in the world to win all four major Book of the Year awards:
English Chess Federation
The English Chess Federation (ECF) is the governing chess organisation in England. It is affiliated to FIDE. The ECF was formed in 2004 as one of the more localised successors to the British Chess Federation (BCF), an organisation founded in 1904. ...
(2010),
ChessCafe.com ChessCafe.com is a website that publishes endgame studies, book reviews and other articles related to chess on a weekly basis. It was founded in 1996 by Hanon Russell, and is well known as a repository of articles about chess and its history.
It ...
(2001),
Association of Chess Professionals
The Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) is a non-profit organisation which aims to protect the rights of professional chess players, address their concerns and to promote chess worldwide through the organisation of high level chess tournament ...
(2013) and the Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE's trainer committee (2012).
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Notable games
Jacob Aagaard vs Per Arnt Rasmussen, 1996, King's Gambit: Accepted, Kieseritzky Gambit Kolisch Defense (C39), 1-0
References
External links
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Interview With 94th British Champion GM Jacob AagaardJacob Aagaard's Blog
1973 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Scottish chess players
Danish chess players
British chess writers
Scottish non-fiction writers
Danish emigrants to Scotland
British male writers
Male non-fiction writers
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