Mihhail Rõtšagov is an Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

n chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 Grandmaster.

He played for Estonia in the Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...

s of 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and in the European Team Chess Championships of 1992 and 1997. In 1999, he won the 21st Festival in Arco, Italy; in 2000, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Eirik Gullaksen in the Norwegian Rapid Chess Championship and tied for 1st-6th with Viktor Gavrikov

Viktor Gavrikov

Viktor Gavrikov is a Lithuanian-Swiss chess Grandmaster.Gavrikov shared 1st with Gintautas Piešina in the 1978 Lithuanian Chess Championship at Vilnius...

, Mark Taimanov

Mark Taimanov

Mark Evgenievich Taimanov is a leading Soviet and Russian chess player and concert pianist.-Chess:He was awarded the International Grandmaster title in 1952 and played in the Candidates Tournament in Zurich in 1953, where he tied for eighth place. From 1946 to 1956, he was among the world's top...

, Patrik Lyrberg, Alexander Kochyev

Alexander Kochyev

Alexander Kochyev is a Russian chess Grandmaster .In the 1970s, he was one of the youngest grandmasters in the world. In 1972, he won the Soviet Union Junior Chess Championship and in 1975, became European Junior Champion. He came 12th in the USSR Chess Championship of 1977...

 and Olli Salmensuu in the Hartwall Heart Of Finland open tournament. In the same year, he participated in the FIDE World Chess Championship

FIDE World Chess Championship 2000

The FIDE World Chess Championship 2000 was held in New Delhi, India, and Tehran, Iran. The first six rounds were played in New Delhi between 27 November and 15 December 2000, and the final match in Tehran started on 20 December and ended on 24 December 2000...

, where he was knocked out by Étienne Bacrot

Étienne Bacrot

Étienne Bacrot is a French chess grandmaster and currently ranked number one in France.He started playing at 4; by 10 young Bacrot was already winning junior competitions and in 1996, at 13 years of age, he won against Vasily Smyslov...

 in the first round.

According to Chessmetrics

Chessmetrics

Chessmetrics is a system for rating chess players devised by Jeff Sonas. It is intended as an improvement over the Elo rating system.-Implementation:...

, at his peak in October 2000 Rõtšagov's play was equivalent to a rating of 2582, and he was ranked number 156 in the world. His best single performance was at the European Team Chess Championship in Pula 1997, where he scored 5.5 of 9 possible points (61%) against 2564-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2611.

In the November 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2472, making him Estonia's number three.

In 2005, he was awarded the title of FIDE Trainer.

External links

• Chessmetrics Player Profile: Mikhail Rytshagov