Faustino Oro

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Faustino Oro
FAUSTI ITT MAR 2023.jpg
Country Argentina
Born (2013-10-14) October 14, 2013 (age 11)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Title International Master (2024)
FIDE   rating 2447 (January 2025)
Peak rating 2447 (January 2025)

Faustino Oro (born October 14, 2013) is an Argentine chess prodigy. [1] [2]

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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. [3] This record has since been broken in November 2024 by Ethan Pang. [4] He has been dubbed the "Messi of chess". [5] [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. [3] [12] [13]

He holds 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, breaking the record of Abhimanyu Mishra. [14]

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