Ten-year-old Faustino Oro beat Magnus Carlsen: – He is extreme

The victory against Carlsen took place in so-called bullet chess – chess where the thinking time is only one minute and it is played digitally.

Argentinian newspapers have been full of stories about the child prodigy in recent days.

And in that country you are often compared to people who have hit tunnels with a ball. That is why he has become the “Messi of Chess” in his home country.

– He is a talent beyond the ordinary, states chess.com journalist Tarjei J. Svensen.

The chess website has Oro as the front man for its children’s version ChessKid.

Chess players have a so-called rating. And Magnus Carlsen has consistently been the player with the highest rating in the world since 2011. He is now at 2830.

Little Faustino became the youngest to reach 2200. He also became the youngest to reach 2300.

He is now at 2330 and is number 43 of all Argentines to play chess – ten years old.

– The overviews that my colleagues at chess.com have made show that he has the highest rating ever at his age.

At the same time, he is number one in the world for those under the age of 11.

– Let’s goCome back in Spanish. Often used as a motivational shout in many sports.shouted the chess genius from Argentina when he won piece after piece against Carlsen, a video on social media shows.

– Fausti is not just any boy. He is a genius. A child prodigy who has received a gift, states the Argentinian major newspaper Clarín in its review of the aforementioned bullet party.

The game against Carlsen lasted 48 moves.

– I am very happy. It’s fantastic for me, because I’ve never met Carlsen before, said the 10-year-old after the victory, according to the Buenos Aires Herald.

Chess expert Svendsen says Oro is particularly good at blitz chess online.

– He belongs to the generation that discovered chess in the corona era and who loves playing chess online.

– Even though this was a bullet game, Magnus is in the top two or three in the world there as well.

This is how the ten-year-old reacted when he discovered he had won:

In an interview with Perfil last year, the boy’s coach, Jorge Rosito, revealed that the Norwegian is Faustino’s favorite player.

After meeting him in a bullet party last year, speculated Hikaru NakamuraAmerican chess grandmaster in whether this is a future world champion.

Tarjei J. Svendsen says that Oro has already taken a step towards becoming international champion, the level below grand champion. He must have three to get the title.

South America has never had the world chess champion.

Faustino Oro was born in October 2013. The month before Magnus Carlsen became world champion in classical chess for the first time:

Mum and dad have quit good jobs to follow their son, writes Clarín. He must be able to continue his schooling, but at the same time devote himself fully to chess.

Where has he moved? The same place Messi moved to, of course. CataloniaCatalonia is a region in Spain that borders France and Andorra to the north and the Mediterranean Sea to the east. The region has 7.5 million inhabitants and the capital is Barcelona..

PS: Interested in Easter chess? Magnus Carlsen takes part in the Grenke tournament, which is broadcast on TV2. The Norwegian began with a loss to Richard Rapport and then a win against the relatively unknown German Daniel Fridman.