Markus Ragger
Austrian chess grandmaster (born 1988)
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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.
Markus Ragger, Karlsruhe 2016 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 February 1988 Klagenfurt, Austria |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Austria |
| Title | Grandmaster (2008) |
| FIDE rating | 2567 (March 2026) |
| Peak rating | 2703 (February 2017) |
| Peak ranking | No. 41 (April 2016) |
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]
