Markus Ragger
| Markus Ragger | |
|---|---|
 Markus Ragger, Karlsruhe 2016 | |
| Country | Austria |
| Born |
February 5, 1988 Klagenfurt, Austria |
| Title | Grandmaster (2008) |
| FIDE rating | 2676 (April 2016) |
| Peak rating | 2698 (October 2015) |
Markus Ragger (born February 5, 1988 in Klagenfurt) is an Austrian chess grandmaster (2008). He won the Austrian Chess Championship in 2008, 2009 and 2010[1] and has played the first board for Austria in the Chess Olympiads from 2008 to 2014.[2]
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, Sebastien Maze, 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]
In October 2015 he reached his peak FIDE Elo rating at 2698.
References
- ↑ "Individual Championship 2008". FIDE. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ↑ Bartelski, Wojciech. "Men's Chess Olympiads: Markus Ragger". OlimpBase. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ↑ "9th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament". Chessdom. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ↑ Crowther, Mark (2011-09-21). "The Week in Chess: FIDE World Cup Khanty-Mansiysk 2011". London Chess Center. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
- ↑ Fischer, Johannes (2015-08-07). "Markus Ragger wins Politiken Cup". ChessBase. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ "Austria and Hungary are winner of 2015 Mitropa Cup". Chess Daily News. 2015-06-27. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
External links
- Markus Ragger chess games at 365Chess.com
- Markus Ragger player profile and games at Chessgames.com