Faustino Oro

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Faustino Oro
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Oro in 2025
Personal information
Born (2013-10-14) October 14, 2013 (age 12)
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]

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Career

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 during a weekly Bullet Brawl tournament hosted by Chess.com. [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.

In September 2025, Oro 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. [16] During the tournament, his live rating crossed 2500, making him the highest rated 11-year-old in chess history. His live-rating performance in the event was 2759.

In November 2025, at the Chess World Cup 2025, Oro defeated Grandmaster Ante Brkić 5-3 to become the youngest player ever to win a match at the Chess World Cup. [17] 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.

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. ↑ "The Magistral Tournament "Ciudad de León"". Advanced Chess León. Retrieved 2025-10-16.
  5. 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.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Augusto, César (2024-03-30). "'Messi of chess': Argentine 10-year-old child prodigy takes no prisoners". Buenos Aires Times. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  8. ↑ Colodro, Carlos Alberto (2023-11-10). "Faustino Oro, Argentina's golden boy, continues to impress". Chess News. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  9. ↑ "10-year-old dubbed 'Messi of Chess' beats Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen in tense 'bullet' match". 5 April 2024.
  10. ↑ Nuñez, Fernando Romero (March 25, 2024). "Argentine 10-year-old chess phenomenon beats world number one".
  11. ↑ "9-Year-Old Dubbed 'Messi Of Chess' Youngest Ever To Score IM Norm". Chess.com News. October 11, 2023.
  12. ↑ Svensen, Tarjei (January 11, 2025). "9-Year-Old Roman Shogdzhiev Becomes Youngest Ever To Score IM Norm".
  13. ↑ "Robert Ris analyses Faustino Oro's bullet win over Magnus Carlsen". Chess News. 2024-03-30. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  14. ↑ "Faustino Oro, the 10-year-old boy who beat Magnus Carlsen, the world chess number one". Ground News. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  15. ↑ "Faustino Oro sufre, pero se aferra al récord de MI más joven de la historia". 2024-06-30. Retrieved 2024-06-30.
  16. ↑ "11-Year-Old Faustino Oro Scores 1st GM Norm, Crosses 2500". 2025-09-23. Retrieved 2025-09-24.
  17. ↑ Nuñez, Fernando Romero (2025-11-04). "Argentine chess prodigy Faustino Oro through to World Cup second round". Buenos Aires Herald. Retrieved 2025-11-06.
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