| Mads Andersen | |
|---|---|
 Mads Andersen, 2013 | |
| Country | Denmark |
| Born | 1 March 1995 (age 28) Nuuk, Greenland, Denmark |
| Title | Grandmaster (2016) |
| FIDE rating | 2615 (April 2023) |
| Peak rating | 2615 (November 2022) |
Mads Andersen (born 1 March 1995) is a Danish chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Danish Chess Champion.
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.
Andersen competed in the 2009 World U14 championship, scoring 8/11 and placing 5th along with Pouya Idani. [7] He placed 4th- 9th in the 2010 World U16 Youth Championship along with Benjamin Bok, Marcin Krzyzanowski, Sergey Savitskiy, Maxime Lagarde, Chang Liu. [8]
As of November 2020, Andersen is ranked as the 2nd best chess player in Denmark. [9]
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