Full name Grigoriy Oparin Name Grigoriy Oparin | Country Russia | |
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Born July 1, 1997 (age 26) Munich, Germany ( 1997-07-01 ) | ||
Grigoriy Oparin Vs Daniil Dubov
Alexander Morozevich vs Grigoriy Oparin - Moscow Chess Blitz 2015
Grigoriy Oparin (Russian: Григорий Опарин; born 1 July 1997 in Munich, Germany) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
Contents
- Grigoriy Oparin Vs Daniil Dubov
- Alexander Morozevich vs Grigoriy Oparin Moscow Chess Blitz 2015
- Career
- References
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.
In May 2012 he finished third, behind Vladislav Artemiev and Vladimir Belous, at the World Youth Stars tournament in Kirishi. In July 2013 Oparin played for the silver medal-winning Russian team in the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad in Chongqin, China. In this competition he also won an individual gold medal as the best player on board 2. In September, he won the Trieste Open. 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.
In 2014 he won the Russian Junior Championship. Two years later, he won the Russian Higher League, the qualifier for the Superfinal of the Russian Chess Championship. In this latter event, he scored 5.5/11 points.
