Jacob Aagaard

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Jacob Aagaard, 2008
Surname Jacob Aagaard Madsen
Association ScotlandScotland Scotland (2006 to 2009, since 2017) Denmark (until 2006, 2009 to 2017)
DenmarkDenmark 
Born July 31, 1973
Hørsholm , Denmark
title International Master (1997)
Grand Master (2007)
Current  Elo rating 2477 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2542 (May and July 2010)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Jacob Aagaard Madsen (born July 31, 1973 in Hørsholm ) is a Danish chess player , chess author and publisher . He has been playing for Scotland since 2017.

Life

Aagaard began to record successes in the chess arena in the second half of the 1990s. In 1996 he shared third place (with Sergei Kalinitschew and Nicolay Legky ) in Budapest , 1997 he shared first place in Highgate and Rotherham , and in 1998 he won in Hampstead . In 2002, the year in which he became international champion , he shared first place in Helsingør , the following year he won the tournament undivided. At the turn of the year 2003/04, Aagaard was shared third at the Rilton Cup in Stockholm (together with Viktor Kortschnoi , Eric Lobron and Robert Fontaine , among others ), in 2004 he won together with Thomas Luther and Milan Draško in Arco . In the same year, after taking up residence in Glasgow , he became Scottish runner-up. The following year he became the Master of Scotland. From February 2006 to November 2009 Aagaard played for the Scottish Chess Federation. In 2006 Aagaard was sixth in the Danish Championship and won again in Arco. In 2007 he achieved the greatest sporting success of his career when he won the British Championship in Great Yarmouth . In the same year he was awarded the title of Grand Master . In 2011 he received the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.

Aagaard has made a name for himself as a successful author of chess literature since the late 1990s. In 2004 he founded the chess book publisher Quality Chess UK LLP and, together with John Shaw and Andrew Greet , publishes around 10 to 20 chess books in the demanding market segment every year.

Team chess

National team

Aagaard took part in four Chess Olympiads , namely 2006 and 2008 for Scotland and 2012 and 2014 for Denmark. In 2011 he took part in the European Team Championship with the Danish team .

Club chess

In the Danish Skakligaen (until 2004 1st Division) Aagaard played in the 1995/96 season with champions SK K41 , where he also played again in the 2002/03 season, in the 1997/98 season with Gistrup Skakforening , which as Promoted team won the title in the 2000/01 season at Århus Skakklub , in the 2004/05 season at Helsingør Skakklub , in the 2007/08 season and from 2009 to 2012 at Skakklubben Sydøstfyn and in the 2012/13 season at Brønshøj Skakforening . In the 2014/15 season he played for the Skakforeningen ØBRO , in the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons he played for the Charlottenlunder club Philidor , with whom he was champion in both years. Aagaard played again for Brønshøj in the 2017/18 season.

In the Swedish Elitserien , Aagaard played from 1998 to 2004 for Limhamns SK , in the British Four Nations Chess League in the 1996/97 season for Na Fianna , in the 1997/98 season for Slough and in the 2013/14 and 2016/17 seasons at Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher . In the Spanish team championship he played for CE Foment Martinenc Barcelona in 2007 and 2008 .

Publications

  • Easy Guide to the Panov-Botvinnik Attack, 1998
  • Easy Guide to the Sveshnikov Sicilian, 2000
  • Dutch Stonewall, 2001
  • Sicilian Kalashnikov, 2001 (with Jan Piński )
  • Excelling at Chess, 2002
  • Meeting 1. d4, 2002 (with Esben Lund )
  • Queen's Indian Defense, 2002
  • Excelling at Positional Chess, 2003
  • Starting Out: The Grunfeld Defense, 2004
  • Excelling at Combinational Play: Learn to Identify and Exploit Tactical Chances, 2004
  • Inside the Chess Mind: How Players of All Levels Think About the Game, 2004
  • Excelling at Technical Chess: Learn to Identify and Exploit Small Advantages, 2004
  • Excelling at Chess Calculation: Capitalizing on Tactical Chances, 2004
  • Starting Out: Benoni Systems, 2005 (with Endre Vegh , Alexander Rajetzki and Maxim Tschetwerik )
  • Experts vs. the Sicilian, 2006 (with John Shaw)
  • Practical Chess Defense, 2006
  • The Attacking Manual 1: Basic Principles, 2008, ISBN 978-91-976004-0-8
  • The Attacking Manual 2: Technique and Praxis, 2008, ISBN 978-91-976004-1-5
  • Jacob Aagaard: Grandmaster Preparation - Calculation . Quality Chess, 2012, ISBN 978-1-907982-31-6 .
  • Jacob Aagaard: Grandmaster Preparation - Positional Play . Quality Chess, 2012, ISBN 978-1-907982-27-9 .
  • Jacob Aagaard: Grandmaster Preparation - Strategic Play . Quality Chess, 2013, ISBN 978-1-907982-29-3 .
  • Jacob Aagaard: Grandmaster Preparation - Attack & Defense . Quality Chess, 2013, ISBN 978-1-907982-70-5 .
  • Jacob Aagaard: Grandmaster Preparation - Endgame Play . Quality Chess, 2014, ISBN 978-1-907982-27-9 .
  • Jacob Aagaard: Grandmaster Preparation - Thinking Inside the Box . Quality Chess, 2017, ISBN 978-1-907982-35-4 .
  • Playing the French, Quality Chess, Glasgow, 2013, ISBN 978-1-907982-37-8 (with Nikolaos Ntirlis )

Web links

Commons : Jacob Aagaard  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to www.chessgames.com
  2. ↑ Change of association in 2006 at FIDE (English)
  3. ↑ Association change 2009 at FIDE (English)
  4. ^ Homepage of the Quality Chess publishing house , accessed on June 7, 2010
  5. ↑ Jacob Aagaard's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Jacob Aagaard's results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Jacob Aagaard's results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Aagaard, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacob Aagaard Madsen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish-Scottish chess player and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Hørsholm