In 2010, at the age of thirteen, Richard Rapport became the youngest Hungarian grandmaster ever, and is now Hungary’s highest rated chess player.
In 2012, he shared victory in the U20 World Championship (Alexander Ipatov from Turkiye was declared world champion after tie-break calculations), and in 2013, he shared first place in the Tata Chess Tournament group B (Arkadi Naiditsch was declared winner).
In the 2017 Tata Steel Chess Tournament, he defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen, and later that year, he won the Hungarian championship. Rapport has also worked as a second to former world champion Ding Liren in his two world championship matches.
In 2013, Richard shared first place in Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament with Nils Grandelius and Nigel Short, and is now participating in the Tepe Sigeman Chess Tournament for the second time.