Faustino Oro

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Faustino Oro
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Oro in 2025
Country Argentina
Born (2013-10-14) October 14, 2013 (age 11)
Buenos Aires, Argentina [1]
Title International Master (2024)
FIDE   rating 2509 (October 2025)
Peak rating 2509 (October 2025)

Faustino Oro (born October 14, 2013) is an Argentine chess prodigy and International Master. [2] [3]

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Career

In 2023, when he was nine, he received a rating of 2300 (classical), becoming the youngest chess player to have done so at the time. [4] This record has since been broken in November 2024 by Ethan Pang. [5] He has been dubbed the "Messi of chess," or "Chessi." [6] [7] [8] [9] He was also the youngest player to attain a norm for the IM title. [10] This record has since been broken in January 2025 by Roman Shogdzhiev. [11]

In May 2024, Faustino defeated 5-time world champion and world #1 ranked Magnus Carlsen during a weekly Bullet Brawl tournament hosted by Chess.com. [4] [12] [13]

He held the world record for the youngest International Master, a title which he earned in June 2024 at the age of 10 years, 8 months, and 16 days. [14] The record was later broken by Roman Shogdzhiev in May 2025 at the age of 10 years, 3 months, and 21 days.

In September 2025, Faustino earned his first grandmaster norm at the Legends and Prodigies 2025 tournament in Madrid, Spain, becoming the second youngest player to ever score a GM norm after Gukesh Dommaraju. [15] During the tournament, his live rating crossed 2500, making him the highest rated 11-year-old in chess history.

References

  1. ↑ "Oro Faustino". Tata Steel Chess. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  2. ↑ Espectador, El (April 4, 2024). "Faustino Oro, el niño prodigio del ajedrez". elespectador.com (in Spanish).
  3. ↑ "A future Grandmaster". www.tecpetrol.com. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  4. 1 2 Svensen (TarjeiJS), Tarjei J. (2024-03-27). "10-Year-Old Fausti Oro Goes Viral After Beating Magnus Carlsen On Chess.com". Chess.com. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  5. ↑ Svensen (TarjeiJS), Tarjei J. (2024-11-01). "9-Year-Old Ethan Pang Breaks Faustino Oro's Record To Become Youngest-Ever 2300". Chess.com. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  6. ↑ Augusto, César (2024-03-30). "'Messi of chess': Argentine 10-year-old child prodigy takes no prisoners". Buenos Aires Times. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  7. ↑ Colodro, Carlos Alberto (2023-11-10). "Faustino Oro, Argentina's golden boy, continues to impress". Chess News. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  8. ↑ "10-year-old dubbed 'Messi of Chess' beats Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen in tense 'bullet' match". 5 April 2024.
  9. ↑ Nuñez, Fernando Romero (March 25, 2024). "Argentine 10-year-old chess phenomenon beats world number one".
  10. ↑ "9-Year-Old Dubbed 'Messi Of Chess' Youngest Ever To Score IM Norm". Chess.com News. October 11, 2023.
  11. ↑ Svensen, Tarjei (January 11, 2025). "9-Year-Old Roman Shogdzhiev Becomes Youngest Ever To Score IM Norm".
  12. ↑ "Robert Ris analyses Faustino Oro's bullet win over Magnus Carlsen". Chess News. 2024-03-30. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  13. ↑ "Faustino Oro, the 10-year-old boy who beat Magnus Carlsen, the world chess number one". Ground News. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  14. ↑ "Faustino Oro sufre, pero se aferra al récord de MI más joven de la historia". 2024-06-30. Retrieved 2024-06-30.
  15. ↑ "11-Year-Old Faustino Oro Scores 1st GM Norm, Crosses 2500". 2025-09-23. Retrieved 2025-09-24.
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