Mads Andersen (chess player)

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

Mads Andersen
Mads Andersen, 2013
CountryDenmark
Born1 March 1995 (1995-03) (age 25)
Nuuk, Greenland, Denmark
TitleGrandmaster (2016)
FIDE rating2579 (February 2021)
Peak rating2611 (January 2019)

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.

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]

Andersen is ranked 2nd best chess player in Denmark. (November 2020)[9]

References
  1. 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2011, 4-5 February, Antalya, TUR FIDE
  2. 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2016, 27-30 March, Moscow, Russia 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 2020-06-24.
  6. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - V OPEN AMATEUR CALVIA". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  7. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - WORLD YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2009 (14)". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  8. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - World Youth Chess Championships 2010". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  9. Staff writer(s) (February 2018). "Federations Ranking - Denmark". FIDE.


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