06/14/2024 6:55 p.m.
Faustino Oro (2351 ELO) has all the spotlight on him, given that this Saturday he can shatter a chess record: become the youngest International Master in history and dethrone the mark that belongs to the American Abhimanyu Mishra, who established it at 10 years, nine months and three days. At 10 years, seven months and one day, the Buenos Aires kid who started playing in the pandemic needs a win in the last round of the Madrid Chess Festival to reach the goal. Now, another top brand has already been secured: overcome the barrier of 2400 ELO points before turning 11, according to the data specialist Tarjei Svensen.
His masterful performance in the Colombian Continental It opened up the whole panorama for him: he added 8.5 points out of a possible 11, finished undefeated and finished 8th, sharing second place. In fact, he took about 48 points in his pocket after having achieved a performance of 2494. That is why he arrived at the closed tournament in the Spanish capital with a virtual ranking of 2399. And his good performance in the competition is allowing him to add other 17 units, so appears with 2416 in real time. Whatever happens in the game against Alex Garrido Outon (2406), he will pass 2400. In fact, a defeat would lead him, in any case, to round out a positive balance of nine units.
Faustino Oro, at the Madrid Chess Masters. (Madrid Chess Masters Press)
Who were the others who had achieved it?
Until now, only three chess players had been able to achieve 2400 (or more) ELO prior to blowing out the 11 candles. And each of them today is a protagonist in the elite of the science-game. Nodirbek Abdusattorov, born two decades ago in Uzbekistan, has 2,766 and is in fifth place in the ranking. The others to achieve it were Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaacategory 2005 and from India, which totals 2747, and the also Uzbek Javokhir Sindarov (2688).
The Argentine is based in Spain with his family. (EFE)
The results so far of Faustino Oro at the Madrid Chess Festival
- R1: tables vs. FM Miguel Ruíz (2304)
- R2: tables vs. GM José Gascón del Nogal (2474)
- R3: tables vs. IM Aleksandr Ostrovkiy (2400)
- R4: tables vs. IM Sabrina Vega (2368)
- R5: tables vs. GM Aramis Álvarez (2452)
- R6: triumph vs. GM David Nieto Larino (2388)
- R7: tables vs. FM Pedro Martínez Reyes (2325)
- R8: tables vs. IM Eric Rosen (2361)
