Jacob Aagaard (born 31 July 1973) is a Danish-Scottish
chess grandmaster and the 2007
British Chess Champion
The British Chess Championships are organised by the English Chess Federation. The main tournament incorporates the British Championship, the English Chess Championships and the British Women's Chess Championship so it is possible, although it has ...
. He is Scotland's third-highest rated player as of July 2021, with an
Elo rating
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor.
The Elo system was invented as an improved ch ...
of 2477. His peak rating was 2542. 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, so the title went to
Craig Pritchett
Craig W. Pritchett (born 15 January 1949 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish chess International Master who has written several chess books. He was educated at Allan Glen's School, where he was a prominent member of the chess club and represented ...
. 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.
In 2011, Aagaard was awarded the title of
FIDE
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national c ...
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 (2010),
ChessCafe.com (2001),
Association of Chess Professionals (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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