 Oro in 2025 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 14, 2013 Buenos Aires, Argentina [1] |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Argentina |
| Title | International Master (2024) |
| FIDE rating | 2495 (November 2025) |
| Peak rating | 2509 (October 2025) |
Faustino Oro (born October 14, 2013) is an Argentine chess prodigy and International Master. [2] [3] [4]
In 2023, when Oro was nine, he received a rating of 2300 (classical), becoming the youngest chess player to have done so at the time. [5] This record has since been broken in November 2024 by Ethan Pang. [6] He has been dubbed the "Messi of chess," or "Chessi." [7] [8] [9] [10] He was also the youngest player to attain a norm for the IM title. [11] This record has since been broken in January 2025 by Roman Shogdzhiev. [12]
In May 2024, Oro defeated 5-time world champion and world #1 ranked Magnus Carlsen in an online bullet chess game. [5] [13] [14]
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. [15] The record was later broken by Roman Shogdzhiev in May 2025 at the age of 10 years, 3 months, and 21 days.
Players normally require three "norms" to achieve the title of Grandmaster. In September 2025, Oro earned his first grandmaster norm at the Legends and Prodigies 2025 tournament in Madrid, Spain, becoming the third youngest player to ever score a GM norm, after Illia Nyzhnyk and Gukesh Dommaraju. [16] His performance rating in the event was 2759.[ citation needed ] In the next rating list (1 October, 2025) he became the youngest player ever, and the first 11-year-old, to reach a rating of 2500. [17]
In November 2025, at the Chess World Cup 2025, Oro won his first round match, defeating Grandmaster Ante Brkić 5-3, [18] to become the youngest player ever to win a match at the Chess World Cup. In the second round, Oro was eliminated by losing 2.5-1.5 to Vidit Gujrathi in tiebreaks, after drawing both classical games and the first rapid game.
