Aagaard Jacob Madsen (31.07.1973)
Dens Grandmaster (2007) who was playing for some time for Scotland. Author of many books. Aagaard was British Champion in 2007, Scottish Champion in 2012 and 2005 without title and vice-champion of Scotland in 2004. Chairman of the FIDE Title commission (2018-)
Best results: Hampstead IM 1997, 1st; Arco di Trento (ITA) 2004, 2007 and 2010, 1st.
A participant in the 2006 and 2008 Olympiads with Scotland and then with Denmark since 2012.
Author of: Sicilian Kalashnikov (2001), Dutch Stonewall (2001), Easy Guide to the Sveshnikov Sicilian,Starting Out: The Grunfeld Defence, Excelling at Chess (2002), Meeting 1.d4 (2002), Excelling at Positional Chess (2003), Excelling at Combinational Play: Learn to Identify and Exploit Tactical Chances (2004), Excelling at Technical Chess: Learn to Identify and Exploit Small Advantages (2004), Experts Vs. the Sicilian (2006), and Inside the Chess Mind, Practical Chess Defence (2006), Attacking Manual 1 and 2 (2008-2010) and Grandmaster Preparation – Attack & Defence (2013) .
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).
Peak rating: 2542 in 2010.
