Pandit have written a comprehensive book on the history of Indian chess starting from 570 CE to the year 2010. He is a journalist for The Hindu newspaper. In 1995, he retired as Deputy Chief Officer of Indian Bank. He is the director of the Aaron Chess Academy, India's first chess academy and the founder (1982) and editor of Chess Mate magazine. He was chairman of the All India Chess Federation and a member of the FIDE Central Committee. He played for India in three Chess Olympiads (1960, 1962, and 1964). He did beat Lajos Portisch and Wolfgang Uhlmann. In 1962, he played in the Stockholm Interzonal, but took last place out of 23 players. In 1961, he won the Arjuna Award for Indian sportsmen, the first-ever chess player to be so honored. He has won the state of Tamil Nadu (Madras - now Chennai) chess championship 11 times and the India National Championship 9 times between 19. He became an International Arbiter in 1986. His highest FIDE rating was 2420 in 1981. In 1962 he took last place out of 23 players in the Stockholm Interzonal (but he did defeat Portisch and Uhlmann). In 1960 he had a 2509 performance rating at the Leipzig Chess Olympiad (he defeated Max Euwe). It took 17 years before India produced another International Master (V. He was born in Toungoo, Burma (now Myanmar) and became an International Master in 1961. Manuel Aaron (1935- ) is India's first International Master (IM). Aagaard is the only chess writer in the world to win all four major Book of the Year awards: English Chess Federation (2010), (2001), Association of Chess Professionals (2013) and the Boleslavsky Medal from FIDE's trainer committee (2012). He is a chess author (29 chess books) and co-owner of Quality Chess publishing house.

In the final round for the Scottish title, he defeated GM Mark Hebden with the Scotch Opening. In 2012 he won the Scottish Chess Championship.

In 2010, he reached his highest Elo rating: 2538. In 2007, he won the 94th British Championship. In 2005, he took 1st place in the 112th Scottish Chess Champion, but the title went to Craig Pritchett since Aagaard was not yet a British citizen. In 2004, he co-founded Quality Chess publishing. He studied languages at the University of Copenhagen and Cognitive Semiotics at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. In March 1997, he was awarded the International Master title. At age 16, he was the champion of his local club in Denmark. He was born in Denmark and later moved to Glasgow, Scotland. Jacob Aagaard (1973- ) is a chess writer, trainer (FIDE Senior Trainer), and publisher.

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