Markus Ragger

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Markus Ragger in March 2016
Markus Ragger, Karlsruhe 2016
Association AustriaAustria Austria
Born February 5, 1988
Klagenfurt
title International Master (2005)
Grand Master (2008)
Current  Elo rating 2679 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2703 (February 2017)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Markus Ragger (born February 5, 1988 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian chess player .

Life and clubs

He learned to play chess from his grandparents in pre-kindergarten. Markus Ragger attended an elementary school in Maria Saal and did his Matura at the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Gymnasium in Klagenfurt. He completed his community service at the bfz-Sozialpädagogisches Zentrum , a disabled training center in Klagenfurt. He studied mathematics at the University of Klagenfurt , but did not finish his studies in favor of a career as a chess professional.

At the age of six, Markus Ragger began playing chess at club level at SK Maria Saal . He's still playing there since the 2005/06 season in the 1st Bundesliga . In the 2015/16 season he won the Austrian team championship for the first time with the SK Maria Saal . Ragger has also played in the Greek team championship (for Korydallos ) as well as club chess in Croatia, Slovenia (for the ŽŠK Maribor , the Slovenian team champion 2011), Bosnia (2011 in Neum for the team champion ŠK Bosna Sarajevo ), the Basque Country (for the club Ajedrez Sestao , with whom he became Spanish team champion in 2017 ), Norway (for Vålerenga Sjakklubb , with which he was champion in 2016 , 2017 and 2018 ), France (for Club de Bischwiller , with which he was champion in 2015 , 2018 and 2019 ) , Hungary (for Aquaprofit NTSK , with which he became champion in 2017 ), Switzerland (for SG Riehen ) and the Czech Republic (for the 1st Novoborský ŠK , with which he became Czech team champion in 2018 ). Ragger took part in the European Club Cup eight times (2011 with Bosna Sarajevo, 2013, 2015 and 2016 with Maria Saal, 2014 with Solingen and 2017, 2018 and 2019 with the 1st Novoborský ŠK), and in 2018 and 2019 with the team he achieved the second place and also won the individual ranking on the sixth board in 2018.

With Loek van Wely (right) for Solingen in the 2018 Bundesliga finals in Berlin

In the German federal chess league he has been playing for the Solingen chess company since the 2007/08 season , with which he became German team champion in 2016 . He was trained by the chess grandmaster Duško Pavasovič, who played with Maria Saal , and by GM Artur Jussupow , but also by the Austrian national trainer Zoltán Ribli .

On September 30, 2017 he married the WIM Anna-Christina Kopinits .

successes

In 1996, as an eight-year-old Austrian U10 national champion, he was able to win six more Austrian youth championships, for example the U14 championship in May 2002 in Saalfelden . In 2002 he finished fourth in the U14 World Cup in Heraklion . He has been a FIDE master since 2003, international master since 2005 - at that time he was Austria's youngest international master to date. He achieved the first two standards in March 2005 within two weeks in Deizisau : at the International German Youth Championship and the Neckar Open . He reached the third norm in the 2004/05 season of the 2nd Austrian Bundesliga . In 2005 he was voted Sportsman of the Year for the first time in Carinthia by a large margin . In August 2004, the Youth EU Championship was held in Mureck, Austria , which he won in the U16 category. In November of the same year he finished eighth at the U16 World Cup, again in Heraklion. At the International German Youth Championship in 2005, he took second place.

In July 2007 he took first place in Velden at the Carinthian Chess Festival (Open Carinthian Championship) and achieved a GM standard. In October / November 2007 he remained unbeaten at the European team championships in Heraklion / Crete on the top board of the Austrian team and achieved his second GM norm. The final norm he achieved in the 2007/08 season in the Austrian Bundesliga, so that he was awarded the grandmaster title in March 2008. He is the second Carinthian grandmaster after Karl Robatsch, who died in 2000 . In July 2008 he won the Austrian state championship in Leoben . He was able to defend the title in Jenbach in 2009 and in Vienna in 2010 . At the individual European championships he reached after a 65th place in 2007 in Dresden (placed at 194), a 74th in 2009 in Budva (placed at 116) and a 46th place in 2010 in Rijeka (placed at 122) in 2011 in Aix-les-Bains , placed at 73, placed sixth. He left seven players with an Elo rating of more than 2700 behind and qualified for the World Chess Cup . At the European Championships in 2012 in Plovdiv (25th place) and 2013 in Legnica (18th place), he again had a placement that secured him this qualification. In 2015 he won the Politiken Cup in Helsingør . Further successes were the tournament victory at the Vienna Open 2016 and the shared 1./2. Place at the Tata Steel Challenge in Wijk aan Zee 2017 (Ragger had the worse second ranking compared to winner Gawain Jones ).

Ragger took part with the Austrian national team in the Chess Olympiads 2008 , 2010 , 2012 , 2014 , 2016 and 2018 as well as the European Team Championships 2007, 2009, 2011 , 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019 and played on the top board.

Ragger is the only Austrian who has ever achieved a FIDE rating of over 2600 (as of April 2017). He reached his highest rating to date in February 2017 with 2703 points, which puts him in 41st place in the world rankings. He is by far the strongest Austrian player ahead of Dawit Schengelia and was the first Austrian in the top 50 of the FIDE Elo list since this rating was introduced in 1971.

Web links

Commons : Markus Ragger  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grand Master for Eternity . Article in the Kleine Zeitung on March 17, 2008.
  2. ↑ Markus Ragger's results in the Bosnian Premijer Liga on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ OlimpBase :: European Men's Chess Club Cup :: Markus Ragger. In: OlimpBase. Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 34th European Club Cup team line-up with individual results AVE Novy Bor. In: chess-results.com. October 24, 2018, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 34th European Club Cup board list (final score after seven rounds). In: chess-results.com. October 24, 2018, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 35th European Club Cup team line-up with individual results AVE Novy Bor. In: chess-results.com. November 16, 2019, accessed November 18, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Interview of December 1, 2010 ( Memento of May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) by Georgios Souleidis
  8. ↑ Chess wedding: Kopinits and Ragger are a married couple. In: chess.at. October 4, 2017, accessed January 11, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Valentin Dragnev: regular player at FC Bayern . Article by Harald Eggenberger from April 7, 2016 in the daily newspaper Kurier
  10. ↑ IM application to FIDE (English)
  11. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
  12. ↑ Markus Ragger's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  13. ↑ 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Open team line-up with individual results Austria. In: chess-results.com. September 13, 2016, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  14. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open team line-up with individual results Austria. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Markus Ragger's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  16. ↑ 22nd European Team Chess Championship 2019 Open team line-up with individual results Austria. In: chess-results.com. November 2, 2019, accessed November 18, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Ragger rises to super grandmaster . Article in the daily newspaper Die Presse on October 4, 2016, source: Austria Press Agency .
personal data
SURNAME Ragger, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt