| Mads Andersen | |
| Country: | Denmark |
| Birth Place: | Nuuk, Greenland, Denmark |
| Grandmaster (2016) | |
| Peakrating: | 2618 (December 2023) |
| Fideid: | 1413864 |
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.http://chess-results.com/tnr137452.aspx?lan=2626&art=1&flag=30
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]