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Jacob Aagaard
J Aagaard 
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Number of games in database: 451
Years covered: 1990 to 2025
Last FIDE rating: 2428 (2502 rapid, 2509 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2542
Overall record: +158 -112 =172 (55.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 9 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (69) 
    B90 B42 B92 B84 B47
 Ruy Lopez (25) 
    C78 C99 C84 C92 C95
 French Defense (18) 
    C05 C11 C04 C03 C00
 Caro-Kann (15) 
    B18 B10 B15 B12 B13
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (14) 
    C84 C99 C95 C92 C93
 Sicilian Najdorf (13) 
    B90 B92 B98
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (62) 
    B22 B90 B32 B50 B93
 Nimzo Indian (17) 
    E32 E53 E54 E43 E25
 King's Indian (17) 
    E70 E80 E73 E97 E92
 Queen's Pawn Game (16) 
    A46 A45 E00 E10 D02
 Queen's Indian (15) 
    E15 E12 E17 E14
 English (11) 
    A13 A17 A10 A16 A11
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   J Aagaard vs P A Rasmussen, 1996 1-0
   A Schmied vs J Aagaard, 1995 0-1
   J Aagaard vs Fuad Ahmed Mohamme Mufleh, 2006 1-0
   Shabalov vs J Aagaard, 1999 0-1
   J Pallesen vs J Aagaard, 2002 0-1
   M Strange vs J Aagaard, 1994 0-1
   J Aagaard vs E Hossain, 2008 1-0
   J Aagaard vs H Danielsen, 1997 1/2-1/2
   J Aagaard vs J Rowson, 2007 1/2-1/2
   L Wu vs J Aagaard, 2007 0-1

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   British Championship (2007)
   Scottish Championship (2012)
   111th Scottish Championship (2004)
   Danish Championship (2006)
   Budapest FS09 GM (1996)
   Hans Christian Andersen Mind Games (2012)
   Rilton Cup 2003/04 (2003)
   Bratto Open-A (2007)
   Politiken Cup (2006)
   Politiken Cup (2012)
   Politiken Cup (2015)
   Copenhagen Open (1991)
   European Junior Championship (1993)
   Politiken Cup (1996)
   Wichern Open (1999)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Thinking inside the Box by edwin.n.walker
   Rampant Chess by plerranov
   Rampant Chess by Sally Simpson

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 World Senior Team Championship
   J Aagaard vs Adams (Feb-18-25) 0-1
   B Ngo vs J Aagaard (May-05-22) 0-1
   J Aagaard vs D Macias Pino (Apr-17-22) 1/2-1/2
   J Aagaard vs M Santos Ruiz (Oct-10-21) 1/2-1/2
   J Aagaard vs F Rhine (May-16-21) 1/2-1/2, blitz

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JACOB AAGAARD
(born Jul-31-1973, 51 years old) Denmark

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Jacob Aagaard Madsen is a Grandmaster (2007). He was born and raised in Denmark, later moved to Glasgow, Scotland, then returned to Denmark in 2022. He finished second in the 111th Scottish Championship (2004) and first in the 112th Scottish Championship (2005), but was not a British citizen yet. He won the British Championship (2007) and Scottish Championship (2012). He has written a number of chess books, including Excelling at Chess, Inside the Chess Mind, and Thinking Inside the Box.

Wikipedia article: Jacob Aagaard

Last updated: 2023-06-13 08:00:17

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 page 1 of 19; games 1-25 of 451  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. R Topakian vs J Aagaard  1-0341990Aarhus opB87 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin with ...a6 and ...b5
2. J Aagaard vs S B Petersen  ½-½351991Open Danish Junior ChampionshipD24 Queen's Gambit Accepted
3. J Aagaard vs K Kulaots 1-0341991Open Danish Junior ChampionshipD85 Grunfeld
4. J Aagaard vs E Andersen  1-0541991KronborgE94 King's Indian, Orthodox
5. V Grabliauskas vs J Aagaard  ½-½371991Open Danish Junior ChampionshipE92 King's Indian
6. J Aagaard vs S Clausen 0-1151991KronborgA56 Benoni Defense
7. N Borge vs J Aagaard  ½-½651991KronborgB04 Alekhine's Defense, Modern
8. J Aagaard vs R Ciemniak  0-1371991Open Danish Junior ChampionshipA70 Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3
9. J Aagaard vs O Dannevig  ½-½231991Open Danish Junior ChampionshipA48 King's Indian
10. M Antonsen vs J Aagaard  1-0401991Open Danish Junior ChampionshipE70 King's Indian
11. Y Masserey vs J Aagaard  0-1341991Open Danish Junior ChampionshipB76 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack
12. O Larsen vs J Aagaard  1-0391991KronborgE99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov
13. J Aagaard vs B G Christensen  1-0311991KronborgD31 Queen's Gambit Declined
14. P Mortensen vs J Aagaard  ½-½111991KronborgB08 Pirc, Classical
15. S Pedersen vs J Aagaard  ½-½251991Open Danish Junior ChampionshipB22 Sicilian, Alapin
16. M Duch vs J Aagaard  ½-½601991Open Danish Junior ChampionshipE63 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation
17. I Novikov vs J Aagaard  ½-½301991Copenhagen OpenE70 King's Indian
18. T Ernst vs J Aagaard  1-0411991Copenhagen OpenB77 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack
19. J Aagaard vs R Djurhuus  1-0421991Copenhagen OpenA87 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation
20. Y Dokhoian vs J Aagaard  1-0251991Copenhagen OpenE70 King's Indian
21. J Aagaard vs T Wedberg  ½-½251991Copenhagen OpenE25 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch
22. J Aagaard vs I Andersen  1-0301991Copenhagen OpenD32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
23. J H Hansen vs J Aagaard  0-1401991Copenhagen OpenB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
24. J Aagaard vs K Berg  0-1401991Copenhagen OpenE97 King's Indian
25. P B Petersen vs J Aagaard  0-1341991Copenhagen OpenA07 King's Indian Attack
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Mar-02-10
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  Troller: Aagaard is now Danish again after having been Scottish for some years. For a small country like Denmark, losing 2 GMs (Danielsen to Iceland & Aagaard to Scotland) is tough on the national team.
Apr-21-10
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: Aagard is a regular contributor to "Chess" magazine. I have always enjoyed his insighful analysis of the games he presents.
Jul-31-11  DarthStapler: Happy birthday, GM Aagaard!
Oct-24-11  SimonWebbsTiger: congratulations to Jacob -- he was just awarded the FIDE Senior Trainer title at the recently concluded FIDE congress.

The FST is awarded if the person is: an IM or GM with at least 2450+ in ELO; author of books; masters one foreign language; has 10+ years of training experience.

He's a bit overqualified then!

Jan-12-12  wordfunph: "Tocco declined my hand and said something about my mother and ancient professions. I asked the arbiter if this was entirely appropriate to which he said, 'You won the game, what more do you want'. Quite right."

- GM Jacob Aagaard (on Aagaard-Tocco Arco 2007 game)

Source: Grandmaster Versus Amateur by Jacob Aagaard & John Shaw

Jul-30-12  SimonWebbsTiger: more congratulations are in order for Jacob who has recently won the Scottish Championship as well as being awarded the FIDE trainer's Isaac Boleslavsky prize for best author (2011).

http://www.fide.com/images/stories/... (.pdf file)

Jul-31-12  wordfunph: "Grandmasters know that a positional advantage is better than a material advantage."

- GM Jacob Aagaard

happy birthday!

Jul-31-12  LoveThatJoker: Happy Birthday, GM Aagaard!

LTJ

Oct-18-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  ketchuplover: Slightly belated dittos.
Feb-17-13  Bowen Island: I have not read through all six pages of posts on Aagaard here, but find something a bit odd. Aagaard wrote an Everyman Chess book titled "Dutch Stonewall" in 2000 (reprinted in 2002). Yet there are no Dutch games on this site by Aagaard and none in the above mentioned book. Don't get me wrong, I like the book and find it most helpful, just that one would expect a player to be asked to write a book on an opening which he was experienced in playing.
Aug-11-13  waustad: <bowen>I found some on chess365 where he played the Dutch, but mostly as white. There were however 2 where he played black there: http://www.365chess.com/game.php?gi... and http://www.365chess.com/game.php?gi...
Dec-13-13  Bowen Island: Thank you, waustad, for finding those games. I enjoyed playing over them.
Jun-28-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  Sally Simpson: I once made a total cock up of a Brilliancy prize Jacob should won.

He should have won it but I gave it to a game he lost.

Full story here:

http://www.redhotpawn.com/blog/blog...

Jul-31-15  Everett: Really enjoy all of his books. His last series is well beyond me, but I keep gravitating toward his texts on positional play.
Aug-01-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  DrNyet: I really like the new Gelfand book that Aagaard "ghostwrote" (per the forward): Positional Decision Making in Chess.

Aagaard's role was to make the book more accessible to amateurs by querying Gelfand, although it's not a standard Q&A book. It also is full of detailed analysis and interesting asides and explorations by Gelfand.

Apr-10-17  epistle: Is this the guy who is the guest of GM Torre and who will have a simul tomorrow at the Meralco Chess Club?
Apr-10-17  cro777: Jakob Aagaard's "Thinking Inside the Box" book tour of India and Asia.

Aagaard will be in India and Asia from the 25th of March until the 20th of April to promote his books, meet and interact with his fans and chess lovers. The release of the final book of the Grandmaster Preparation series will co-incide with Aagaard's visit to India. After India, Jacob will continue on to six more countries in Asia.

<epistle> Aagaard will visit Manila tomorrow (April 11th).

Jacob Aagaard is one of my favorite chess authors. His new book "Grandmaster Preparation: Thinking Inside the box" will be released these days. (Of course, I have ordered the book).

http://chessbase.in/news/jacob-aaga...

Apr-10-17  cro777: The Delhi leg of Jacob Aagaard's book tour:

http://chessbase.in/news/jacob-aaga...

Mar-23-18
Premium Chessgames Member
  Peligroso Patzer: The following game: J Pallesen vs J Aagaard, 2002, not currently in Aagaard's "Notable Games" list, is today's GOTD. Aagaard apparently referred to it as his "Mona Lisa" in "Thinking Inside the Box".
Sep-19-18  Gudrun: Jacob is trainer & captain for the Indian women's team. The crafty guy can look forward to some excellent Indian food! & pal about with V Anand
Jun-05-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: https://new.uschess.org/news/cover-...
Dec-19-21  Whitehat1963: First on the alphabetical live list.
Dec-19-21  Whitehat1963: Oops! No! This guy is first:

Anton Aaberg

Jun-12-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  Fusilli: A puzzle about technique.

Aagaard, 2007.

White to play.


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Jun-13-23
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  Fusilli:


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Jacob Aagaard, 2007
White to play

1.Rf8 (if 1.Ke5, Black goes for "shouldering," i.e. stopping the white king by going towards it. In this case, 1...Kf3, and if 2.Rf8+ Ke3.)

1...Kh2 2.Ke5 g3 3.Kf4 g2


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4.Rh8+ (if 4.Kf3 g1=N+! and black draws with correct play) Kg1 5.Kg3


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5...Kf1 6.Kf8+ Kg1 7.Rf7 (If 7.Rf2 Kh1 draws) Kh1


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8.Rh7+ Kg1 9.Rh2 winning.

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