Mads Andersen (born 1 March 1995) is a Danish chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Danish Chess Champion.
| Mads Andersen | |
|---|---|
 Mads Andersen, 2013 | |
| Country | Denmark |
| Born | 1 March 1995 (age 29) Nuuk, Greenland, Denmark |
| Title | Grandmaster (2016) |
| FIDE rating | 2589 (October 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2618 (December 2023) |
Chess career
editBorn 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.[1]
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]
References
edit- ^ 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2011, 4-5 February, Antalya, TUR FIDE
- ^ 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2016, 27-30 March, Moscow, Russia FIDE
- ^ Staff writer(s) (28 March 2018). "European Individual Chess Championship 2018". Chess Results.
- ^ Staff writer(s) (28 March 2018). "European Individual Chess Championship 2018: Andersen Mads". Chess Results.
- ^ "The chess games of Mads Andersen". www.chessgames.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
- ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - V OPEN AMATEUR CALVIA". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
- ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - WORLD YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2009 (14)". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
- ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - World Youth Chess Championships 2010". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
- ^ Staff writer(s) (February 2018). "Federations Ranking - Denmark". FIDE. Archived from the original on 2019-05-17. Retrieved 2018-02-13.
External links
edit- Mads Andersen player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Mads Andersen rating card at FIDE
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