Jacob Aagaard

Jacob Aagaard
Jacob Aagaard
	Jacob Aagaard, 2008
Full name	Jacob Aagaard
Country	Scotland
Born	31 July 1973 (age 51); Denmark
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2426 (November 2024)
Peak rating	2538 (July 2009)

Jacob Aagaard (born 31 July 1973) is a Danish-born Scottish Grandmaster of chess who won the 94th British Championship in 2007. He is Scotland's second highest ranked player as of January 2010, with an Elo rating of 2538. In 2004, he took second place in the Scottish Chess Championship. In 2005, he took first place in the Scottish Championship, but was not a British citizen. 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, a chess publishing house.^[1]

In 2011 Aagaard was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.

In 2012 Jacob won the Scottish Chess Championships with a score of 7/9

Aagaard is the only chess writer in the world to win all three major awards: ECF, ChessCafe.com and FIDE's trainer committee.

Books

Jacob Aagaard (1998). Easy Guide to the Panov-Botvinnik Attack. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857445633.
Jacob Aagaard (2000). Easy Guide to the Sveshnikov Sicilian. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857442809.
Jacob Aagaard (2001). Dutch Stonewall. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857442526.
Jacob Aagaard (2001). Excelling at Chess. Everyman Chess. ISBN 1857442733.
Jacob Aagaard (2002). Queen's Indian Defence. Everyman Chess. ISBN 1857443004.
Jacob Aagaard and Esben Land (2002). Meeting 1.d4. Everyman Chess. ISBN 1857442245.
Jacob Aagaard (2003). Excelling at Positional Chess. Everyman Chess. ISBN 185744325X.
Jacob Aagaard (2004). Excelling at Chess Calculation. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857443608.
Jacob Aagaard (2004). Excelling at Combinational Play. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857443455.
Jacob Aagaard (2004). Excelling at Technical Chess. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857443646.
Jacob Aagaard (2004). Starting Out: The Grunfeld. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857443509.
Jacob Aagaard (2004). Inside the Chess Mind. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857443578.
Jacob Aagaard (2006). Practical Chess Defence. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-91-975244-4-1.
Jacob Aagaard (2008). The Attacking Manual: Basic Principles. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-91-976004-08.
Jacob Aagaard (2008). The Attacking Manual 2: Technique and Praxis. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-91-976004-15.
Jacob Aagaard (2008). The Attacking Manual 2: Technique and Praxis. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-9-9764-28.