Markus Ragger

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Markus Ragger
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Markus Ragger, Karlsruhe 2016
CountryAustria
Born (1988-02-05) 5 February 1988 (age 33)
Klagenfurt, Austriama
TitleGrandmaster (2008)
FIDE rating2685 (August 2021)
Peak rating2703 (February 2017)
RankingNo. 48 (August 2021)
Peak rankingNo. 41 (April 2016)

Markus Ragger (born 5 February 1988) is an Austrian chess grandmaster. He won the Austrian Chess Championship in 2008, 2009 and 2010[1] and has played the first board for Austria in the Chess Olympiads since 2008.[2] In October 2016, he became the first Austrian to reach a FIDE rating of 2700. His peak rating is 2703, which he reached in February 2017.

Chess career[]

In 2011, he tied for 1st–5th with Alexander Areshchenko, Yuriy Kuzubov, Parimarjan Negi and Ni Hua in the 9th Parsvnath Open Tournament.[3] He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011, where he was eliminated in the first round by Evgeny Alekseev.[4] In the Chess World Cup 2013 he reached the second round and lost to Nikita Vitiugov.

In 2015, Ragger won the Politiken Cup in Helsingør on tiebreak over Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Jon Ludwig Hammer, Laurent Fressinet, Tiger Hillarp Persson, Samuel Shankland, Sébastien Mazé, Mihail Marin, Sune Berg Hansen and Vitaly Kunin, after all players finished on 8/10.[5] In the same year, he led the Austrian team to victory at the Mitropa Cup in Mayrhofen.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ "Individual Championship 2008". FIDE. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  2. ^ Bartelski, Wojciech. "Men's Chess Olympiads: Markus Ragger". OlimpBase. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  3. ^ "9th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament". Chessdom. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  4. ^ Crowther, Mark (2011-09-21). "The Week in Chess: FIDE World Cup Khanty-Mansiysk 2011". London Chess Center. Archived from the original on 20 October 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  5. ^ Fischer, Johannes (2015-08-07). "Markus Ragger wins Politiken Cup". ChessBase. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  6. ^ "Austria and Hungary are winner of 2015 Mitropa Cup". Chess Daily News. 2015-06-27. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

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