Mads Andersen (chess player)

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Mads Andersen
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Mads Andersen, 2013
Personal information
Born1 March 1995 (1995-03) (age 30)
Nuuk, Greenland, Denmark
Chess career
Country Denmark
Title Grandmaster (2016)
FIDE   rating 2550 (January 2026)
Peak rating 2618 (December 2023)

Mads Andersen (born 1 March 1995) is a Danish chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Danish Chess Champion.

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Chess career

Born in 1995, Andersen earned his international master title in 2011 [1] and his grandmaster title in 2016. [2] He won the Danish Chess Championship in 2016 and 2017. In March 2018, he competed in the European Individual Chess Championship. He finished in one-hundredth place, [3] scoring 6/11 (+3–2=5). [4]

Andersen's first tournament win was in the 5th Open Amateur in Calvia in which he tied first place with Francisco Lopez Colon, Ehsan Ali, and Pedro Jose Barcelo Pujadas. [5] [6] He won the GM Visma Chess Tournament in 2014 in Växjö, Sweden, ahead of GM Tiger Hillarp Persson. [7]

Andersen competed in the 2009 World U14 championship, scoring 8/11 and placing 5th along with Pouya Idani. [8] He placed 4th- 9th in the 2010 World U16 Youth Championship along with Benjamin Bok, Marcin Krzyzanowski, Sergey Savitskiy, Maxime Lagarde, Chang Liu. [9]

As of November 2020, Andersen is ranked as the 2nd best chess player in Denmark. [10]

References

  1. ↑ 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2011, 4-5 February, Antalya, TUR Archived 2018-02-13 at the Wayback Machine FIDE
  2. ↑ 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2016, 27-30 March, Moscow, Russia Archived 2018-02-13 at the Wayback Machine FIDE
  3. ↑ Staff writer(s) (28 March 2018). "European Individual Chess Championship 2018". Chess Results.
  4. ↑ Staff writer(s) (28 March 2018). "European Individual Chess Championship 2018: Andersen Mads". Chess Results.
  5. ↑ "The chess games of Mads Andersen". www.chessgames.com. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  6. ↑ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - V OPEN AMATEUR CALVIA". chess-results.com. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  7. ↑ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - Visma Chess Tournament 2014 GM". s2.chess-results.com. Retrieved 20 January 2026.
  8. ↑ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - WORLD YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2009 (14)". chess-results.com. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  9. ↑ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - World Youth Chess Championships 2010". chess-results.com. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  10. ↑ Staff writer(s) (February 2018). "Federations Ranking - Denmark". FIDE. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
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