Markus Ragger
{{Short description|Austrian chess grandmaster (born 1988)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{Infobox chess player
| name = Markus Ragger
| image = Ragger,Markus 2016 Karlsruhe.jpeg
| caption = Markus Ragger, Karlsruhe 2016
| birth_name =
| country = Austria
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1988|02|05|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Klagenfurt, Austria
| death_date =
| death_place =
| title = Grandmaster (2008)
| worldchampion =
| peakrating = 2703 (February 2017)
| peakranking = No. 41 (April 2016)
| FideID = 1610856
}}
Markus Ragger (born 5 February 1988) is an Austrian chess grandmaster. He won the Austrian Chess Championship in 2008, 2009 and 2010{{cite web |url=http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=14854 |title=Individual Championship 2008 |publisher=FIDE |language= |accessdate=13 November 2011}} and has played the first board for Austria in the Chess Olympiads since 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/7rxr7xde.html |title=Men's Chess Olympiads: Markus Ragger |last=Bartelski |first=Wojciech |publisher=OlimpBase |accessdate=13 November 2011}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://reports.chessdom.com/news-2011/alexander-areshchenko-parsvnath-international |title=9th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament |publisher=Chessdom |accessdate=13 November 2011 |archive-date=19 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111119202136/http://reports.chessdom.com/news-2011/alexander-areshchenko-parsvnath-international |url-status=dead }} He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011, where he was eliminated in the first round by Evgeny Alekseev.{{cite web |url=http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/events/fide-world-cup-khanty-mansiysk-2011 |title=The Week in Chess: FIDE World Cup Khanty-Mansiysk 2011 |last=Crowther |first=Mark |date=21 September 2011 |publisher=London Chess Center |accessdate=13 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020150713/http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/events/fide-world-cup-khanty-mansiysk-2011 |archivedate=20 October 2011 }} 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.{{cite web |last=Fischer |first=Johannes |title=Markus Ragger wins Politiken Cup |url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/markus-ragger-wins-politiken-cup |publisher=ChessBase |accessdate=17 October 2015 |date=7 August 2015}} In the same year, he led the Austrian team to victory at the Mitropa Cup in Mayrhofen.{{cite web |title=Austria and Hungary are winner of 2015 Mitropa Cup |url=https://chessdailynews.com/austria-and-hungary-are-winners-of-2015-mitropa-cup/ |website=Chess Daily News |accessdate=17 October 2015 |date=27 June 2015}}
References
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External links
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- {{Chess.com player|markus-ragger|member=MarkusRagger}}
- {{Chessgames.com player|54675}}
- {{365Chess.com player|Markus_Ragger}}
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Category:Austrian chess players
Category:Chess Olympiad competitors
Category:Sportspeople from Klagenfurt
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