Grigoriy Oparin

Grigoriy Oparin

Grigoriy Oparin at the WChJ in Athens 2012
Country Russia
Born (1997-07-01) 1 July 1997
Munich, Germany
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2616 (December 2016)
Peak rating 2626 (September 2016)

Grigoriy Oparin (Russian: Григорий Опарин; born 1 July 1997 in Munich, Germany)[1] is a Russian chess grandmaster.

Career

Oparin was awarded the FIDE title of Candidate Master in 2007, as a result of his second place, behind Kirill Alekseenko, at the European under-10 championship. He was awarded the title International Master (IM) in 2011. The norms required for the title were achieved in Mariánské Lázně, Czech Republic, Autumn in Livingroom V. Dvorkovich and RSSU-18 IM tournaments in Moscow in 2009, 2011 Aeroflot Open B tournament, and First Saturday Tournament of April 2011 in Budapest.[2]

In May 2012 he finished third, behind Vladislav Artemiev and Vladimir Belous, at the World Youth Stars tournament in Kirishi.[3] In July 2013 Oparin played for the silver medal-winning Russian team in the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad in Chongqin, China.[4] In this competition he also won an individual gold medal as the best player on board 2.[5] In September, he won the Trieste Open.[6] With this victory he achieved his third and final norm required for the title of Grandmaster (GM), the first two coming from the 2011 Chigorin Memorial and Masters Open of the 2013 Gibraltar Chess Festival.[1]

In 2014 he won the Russian Junior Championship.[7][8] Two years later, he won the Russian Higher League, the qualifier for the Superfinal of the Russian Chess Championship.[9] In this latter event, he scored 5.5/11 points.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 GM title application (PDF). FIDE.
  2. ↑ "IM title application" (PDF). FIDE. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "The Week in Chess 916". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  4. ↑ "OlimpBase :: World Youth U16 Chess Olympiads :: Grigory Oparin". www.olimpbase.org. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  5. ↑ Board Standings at the Wayback Machine (archived March 4, 2016). World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad 2013.
  6. ↑ "The Week in Chess 983". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  7. ↑ "В Лоо завершилось детское первенство России". ruchess.ru (in Russian). Russian Chess Federation. 2014-04-24. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  8. ↑ McGourty, Colin (2014-12-22). "Christmas Nutcracker: Russian prodigies". Chess24. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  9. ↑ "Grigoriy Oparin wins Russian "Higher League"". ChessBase. 2016-07-04. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  10. ↑ Silver, Albert (2016-11-01). "Riazantsev and Kosteniuk are 2016 Russian champions". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
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