Grigoriy Oparin

Grigoriy Alekseyevich Oparin (Russian: Григо́рий Алексе́еввич Опа́рин; born 1 July 1997) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2013.

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Alekseyevich and the family name is Oparin.
Grigoriy Oparin
Grigoriy Oparin at the WChJ in Athens 2012
Full nameGrigoriy Alekseyevich Oparin
CountryRussia
Born (1997-07-01) 1 July 1997
Munich, Germany[1]
TitleGrandmaster (2013)
FIDE rating2652 (June 2020)
Peak rating2660 (July 2019)

Career

Oparin was awarded the title of Candidate Master in 2007, as a result of his second place, behind Kirill Alekseenko, at the European Youth Chess Championships in the Under 10 division.[2] 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.[3]

In May 2012 he finished third, behind Vladislav Artemiev and Vladimir Belous, at the World Youth Stars tournament in Kirishi.[4] In July 2013 Oparin played for the silver medal-winning Russian team in the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad in Chongqin, China.[5] In this competition he also won an individual gold medal as the best player on board 2.[6] In September, he won the Trieste Open.[7] 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 March 2014, Oparin scored 7½/11 points in the European Individual Chess Championship, which qualified the top 23 finishers to the FIDE World Cup. He tied for 10th-24th places, finishing 24th on tiebreak score.[8] The following month, he won the Russian Junior Championship.[9][10] Two years later, he won the Russian Higher League, the qualifier for the Superfinal of the Russian Chess Championship.[11] In this latter event, he scored 5½/11 points.[12] In December 2016, Oparin took part in the Nutcracker Match of the Generations in Moscow. It was a match between two teams, Kings (Boris Gelfand, Alexander Morozevich, Alexei Shirov and Alexey Dreev) and Princes (Vladimir Fedoseev, Daniil Dubov, Vladislav Artemiev and Oparin), held with the Scheveningen system.[13] Oparin and Shirov were the best players scoring 10 points and played a two-game playoff match. Oparin won by 1½-½ and qualified to play in the Kortchnoi Zurich Chess Challenge.[14]

References
  1. GM title application (PDF). FIDE.
  2. "17th European Youth Championship 2007 - Boys U10". chess-results.com.
  3. "IM title application" (PDF). FIDE. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  4. "The Week in Chess 916". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  5. "OlimpBase :: World Youth U16 Chess Olympiads :: Grigory Oparin". www.olimpbase.org. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  6. "Board Standings". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved 2016-07-11.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link). World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad 2013.
  7. "The Week in Chess 983". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  8. McGourty, Colin (2014-03-17). "Winners and Losers: The European Championship". chess24.com. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
  9. "В Лоо завершилось детское первенство России". ruchess.ru (in Russian). Russian Chess Federation. 2014-04-24. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  10. McGourty, Colin (2014-12-22). "Christmas Nutcracker: Russian prodigies". Chess24. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  11. Besenthal, Klaus (2016-07-04). "Grigoriy Oparin wins Russian "Higher League"". ChessBase. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  12. Silver, Albert (2016-11-01). "Riazantsev and Kosteniuk are 2016 Russian champions". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  13. Crowther, Mark (2016-12-22). "Nutcracker Match of the Generations 2016". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
  14. "Grigoriy Oparin qualifies for Kortchnoi Zurich Chess Challenge". Chessdom. 2016-12-23. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
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