Mads Andersen (born 1 March 1995) is a

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grandmaster. He is a three-time Danish Chess Champion.

Chess career

Born in 1995, Andersen earned his

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title in 2011 and his grandmaster title in 2016. He won the

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in 2016 and 2017. In March 2018, he competed in the

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. He finished in one-hundredth place, scoring 6/11 (+3–2=5). 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. He won the GM Visma Chess Tournament in 2014 in

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, Sweden ahead of GM Tiger Hillarp Perssonbr>
Andersen competed in the 2009 World U14 championship, scoring 8/11 and placing 5th along with Pouya Idani. He placed 4th- 9th in the 2010 World U16 Youth Championship along with Benjamin Bok, Marcin Krzyzanowski, Sergey Savitskiy, Maxime Lagarde, Chang Liu. As of November 2020, Andersen is ranked as the 2nd best chess player in Denmark.

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