 Barely a month later, at the European Team Championship in Reykjavik, he won against World Champion Magnus Carlsen.He is only the third Swiss chess player to beat a reigning World Champion (after Oskar Nägeli in 1932, who beat Alexander Alekhine at a training tournament in Bern, and of course Viktor Kortchnoi).In November 2016, representing the SG Zurich at the European Club Cup in Novi Sad, he achieved his best ever rating performance (2803) by scoring 6 out of 7 on board 3.