Grigoriy Oparin | |
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 Grigoriy Oparin at Satka tournament in 2018 | |
| Full name | Grigoriy Alekseyevich Oparin |
| Country | Russia (until May 2022) United States (since June 2022)[a] |
| Born | (1997-07-01)1 July 1997 (age 27) Munich, Germany[3] |
| Title | Grandmaster (2013) |
| FIDE rating | 2660 (March 2025) |
| Peak rating | 2687 (June 2023) |
| Ranking | No. 63 (March 2025) |
| Peak ranking | No. 49 (June 2022) |
Grigoriy Alekseyevich Oparin (Russian:Григо́рий Алексе́евич Опа́рин; born 1 July 1997) is a Russian-Americanchess player. He was awarded the titleGrandmaster byFIDE in 2013.
Oparin was awarded the title ofCandidate Master in 2007, as a result of his second place, behindKirill Alekseenko, at theEuropean Youth Chess Championships in the Under 10 division.[4] He was awarded the titleInternational Master (IM) in 2011. Thenorms required for the title were achieved inMariánské Lázně, Czech Republic, Autumn in Livingroom V. Dvorkovich and RSSU-18 IM tournaments inMoscow in 2009, 2011Aeroflot Open B tournament, andFirst Saturday Tournament of April 2011 inBudapest.[5]
In May 2012 he finished third, behindVladislav Artemiev and Vladimir Belous, at the World Youth Stars tournament inKirishi.[6] In July 2013 Oparin played for the silver medal-winning Russian team in the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad inChongqin, China.[7] In this competition he also won an individual gold medal as the best player on board 2.[8] In September, he won theTrieste Open.[9] With this victory he achieved his third and final norm required for the title of Grandmaster (GM), the first two coming from the 2011Chigorin Memorial and Masters Open of the 2013Gibraltar Chess Festival.[3]
In March 2014, Oparin scored 7½/11 points in theEuropean Individual Chess Championship, which qualified the top 23 finishers to theFIDE World Cup. He tied for 10th-24th places, finishing 24th ontiebreak score.[10] The following month, he won the Russian Junior Championship.[11][12] Two years later, he won the Russian Higher League, the qualifier for the Superfinal of theRussian Chess Championship.[13] In this latter event, he scored 5½/11 points.[14]
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 andAlexey Dreev) and Princes (Vladimir Fedoseev,Daniil Dubov, Vladislav Artemiev and Oparin), held with theScheveningen system.[15] 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 theKortchnoiZurich Chess Challenge.[16]
In November 2021, Oparin took the 3rd place in theFIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2021, thus becoming the 2nd runner-up behind the championAlireza Firouzja and the 1st runner-upFabiano Caruana. Oparin and Caruana had both 7.5 points but Oparin had a weaker tiebreak. However, he qualified to take part in theFIDE Grand Prix 2022. In the first leg of the FIDE Grand Prix 2022, he placed last in Pool B with a 2.5/6 result. In the third leg, he finished second in Pool A with a result of 3.5/6, finishing 14th in the standings with four points.
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