Education
Oparin was awarded the Candidate Master title in 2007, when he finished in second place after Kirill Alekseenko at the European Under-10 Championship.
Oparin was awarded the Candidate Master title in 2007, when he finished in second place after Kirill Alekseenko at the European Under-10 Championship.
In the spring of 2009 he competed in the Moscow Open, where his rating boosted up to 2350 by the time he turned 12. He also participated in the Higher League of the Russian Team Championship in the same year and by 2011 held his 4th and 5th IM norms from the Aeroflot Open. In January 2011 he finished 6th at the Marienbad Open in the Czechoslovakian Republic.
From 2011 to 2012 he scored 4½/7 for his team Rakita at Belgorod, Russia, during the Russian Team Championship.
In May 2012 he finished third at the World"s Youth Stars and in July of the same year scored 6/9 at the Grandmaster Open in Pardubice. In August of the same year he scored 7½/13 at the World Junior Chess Championship and in October he scored 6/9 at the Chigorin Memorial.