Markus Ragger (born 5 February 1988) is an Austrian

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grandmaster. He won the

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in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and has played the first board for Austria in the

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s since 2008. In October 2016, he became the first Austrian to reach a

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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,

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and

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in the 9th Parsvnath Open Tournament. He took part in the

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, where he was eliminated in the first round by Evgeny Alekseev. In the

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he reached the second round and lost to

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. In 2015, Ragger won the Politiken Cup in

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on tiebreak over

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, Jon Ludwig Hammer,

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, Tiger Hillarp Persson, Samuel Shankland, Sébastien Mazé,

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and Vitaly Kunin, after all players finished on 8/10. In the same year, he led the Austrian team to victory at the Mitropa Cup in

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* * * * 1988 births Living people Austrian chess players Chess Grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Sportspeople from Klagenfurt {{Austria-chess-bio-stub