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| Aug-16-04 | | Kaspy2: wow this guy is 57% vowels. he should see to it not to go to Plzen for a beer tho. The mayor may envy him and strip him of a few a's. |
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| Aug-16-04 | | azaris: Actually this is a translitteration, as the 'aa' should be represented with an 'å' as in 'Ångström'. |
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| Aug-16-04 | | acirce: <azaris> Are you sure about that? I don't think he uses 'å'. |
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| Aug-16-04 | | azaris: Aagaard strikes me as an odd name for a Dane, maybe he just adopted the internationalized version. |
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| Nov-06-04 | | AdrianP: I highly recommend his "Attacking Chess" pair of Chessbase CDs (they need the multimedia Fritz 8 update or Chessbase 9). |
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Dec-20-04
 | | cu8sfan: Has anyone read his "Excelling at..." books? I heard some of them were very good. Any comments? |
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| Dec-20-04 | | Poulsen: The double-"a" is quiet common in danish names. Hardly anyone uses "gård" ("farm" or "yard") instead of "gaard". His name can be translated into "riverfarm" since an "å" or "aa" is a minor river. |
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| Dec-29-04 | | fasting: "aa" is the old danish way to write "å". That is the reason it is used alot in names and more or less totaly erased from the actual danish language. Aagaard is pretty common in Denmark, my businesspartner is an Aagaard too! |
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| Jan-30-05 | | Orbitkind: I have his books 'Excelling at Chess Calculation" and "Excelling at Combinational Play". Both are superb for a player near enough 1600 up to probably 2000s. The combinational one just has about 50 pages of text which are very interesting, but of course you will be expected to already know all the tactical themes if you are around 15 or 16 hundred, and to be quite good at them. The rest of the book consists of a large number of carefully made problems, each of which takes a lot of time. I'm still finishing Reinfeld's 1001 winning combinations and sacrifices, but after that Aagaard is my next study for tactics. Excelling at Calculation is a brilliant book giving advice on thinking methods at the board and how to think systematically and economically, and guidelines on how to calculate accurately etc. This is excellent, but only for a player who is already at least about 1500 or 1600 and is working on increasing their playing strength. If you are looking for a good primer on tactics, get Seirawan's tactics. Then get puzzles like 1001 chess sacrifices. Then improve positionally and strategically as well as studying endgame. Only then when you are fairly good, get these Aagaard books as an intermediate to advanced book on tactics for standard time control games, (e.g. 2 or 3 hours or more). |
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Jan-30-05
| | cu8sfan: Thanks for your advice, <Orbitkind>. I'm working on Reinsfeld's 1001 Winning Sacrifices and Combinations. |
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| Jan-30-05 | | Larsker: The French philosopher Sartre didn't want to read Kierkegaard for years because of the latter's name. Aagaard is living in Scotland, married to a Scottish woman but retains his Danish passport. He's an excellent chessplayer from what I've read and a soon-to-be GM. |
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| Jan-30-05 | | Cecil Brown: "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." A nice Kierkegaard quote, which I always think of when a troll passes this way.
A few more quotes can be found here:-http://www.quotationspage.com/searc... I believe Kierkegaard was one of the early existentalists, I thought Satre would have read him avidly. Philosophers, funny lot. |
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| Mar-15-05 | | midknightblue: I have 2 of Aagaard's books. Inside the Chess Mind which is absolutely awesome and Excelling at Positional Chess, which I am still on chapter 2 of, and hope to finish soon. I like it so far. |
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| Apr-28-05 | | artemis: Excelling at combinational play has forced me to calculate deeper than I thought I ever could. In my personal experience, I began the book able to calculate five moves ahead regardless of the complexity with absolute certainty in my calculations, and seven with only a few doubts. Recently, I calculated 19moves in an endgame, and I have also exceeded ten in some middlegames. His methods are wonderful, and extremely helpful if you want to further your calculation |
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| Apr-28-05 | | azaris: <artemis> No one can calculate five moves ahead with absolute certainty regardless of complexity! Not unless they're seriously deluding themselves. |
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| Apr-28-05 | | Everett: <artemis> Aagaard's books must be very simple then. |
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| Apr-28-05 | | OneBadDog: Didn't Aagard and John Watson have some unpleasant words for each other? |
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May-20-05
 | | chancho: Excelling at chess. This book is really good. He explains that the best players just know where the pieces belong and are effective and gives enough study material, to get his points across. Highly recommended, as well as his other book Excelling at Positional Chess. |
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| May-20-05 | | Orbitkind: Maybe artemis meant that he can visualise 10 moves deep in middlegames now. That would likely be the result of visualisation practice and also a sounder grasp of combinations, which is what the book gives. |
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| May-20-05 | | OneBadDog: Thanks to Aagaard, I now see 50 ,moves ahead in any given position and have found a forced win for White on move 1, regardless of Black's response. |
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| May-22-05 | | QuestionableAtBest: <OneBadDog> are your sure??? what about the intermezzo on move 38, where the black's one knight goes to h1 and THEN the other goes to a1, with this subtle move order I think black can hold off until at least move 53, in fact a recent seance with rubinstein's ghost seems to confirm this. |
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| May-23-05 | | OneBadDog: I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles. |
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May-24-05
| | chancho: onebaddog I heard you missed mate in 1 in twenty straight games, LOL. Just joking dude. |
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| May-24-05 | | OneBadDog: That was before Aagaards book turned me into an invincible chess machine. LOL |
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May-24-05
| | chancho: LMAO onebaddog. |
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