The world chess champion of Gukesh and R Praggnanandhaa were surprised by the young Argentinian prodigy Faustino Oro while he was beating the Indian International Master (IM) Divya Deshmukh during the Tata Steel 2025 chess tournament. Oro, 11, Was nicknamed chess “Lionel Messi”.
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The prodigy of the failures of Argentina, Faustino Oro, made the headlines of the Tata 2025 steel chess tournament in Wijk an Zee, in the Netherlands. Oro, an 11 -year -old international master (IM), beat the Indian Im Divya Deshmukh in the second round of the Tata Steel chess tournament while he drew the attention of the champion of chess of the gukesh and the big Indian master R Praggnanandhaa.
Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa, who played their respective games at the failures of Tata Steel, took a break for a while to watch Oro Play. The two also paused at the time when Oro won his victory over Divya and was surprised by the young person’s success.
Who is Faustino Oro?
Faustino Oro, nicknamed the “Lionel Messi” of failures, is an international master born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 14, 2013. He was compared to the Argentine star of football Lionel Messi due to an introduction similar to sport in sport in A very young age the age and the immense talent they have in their respective sports.
In 2024, Oro became the youngest to reach a standard for the instant messaging title, when he was only 10 years old, eight months and 16 days.
He broke the record of the American Grand Master Abhimanyu Mishra, but the Oro record was held less than a year after Roman Shogdzhiev became the youngest to obtain an IM standard early in January. Roman was only 9 years old, 10 months and 7 days when he broke the Oro record to win the IM standard.
Still in 2024, Oro beat the world n ° 1 of Magnus Carlsen in a weekly tournament of flea fight which is led by Chess.com.
In 2023, ORO became the youngest to obtain a note of 2300 in conventional failures. However, this record was broken by Ethan Pang in England in November 2024. Oro has 2.5 points out of seven possible in the current tata steel chess tournament.
Who is Divya Deshmukh?
Divya Deshmukh, also a Mi, is a multiple gold medalist in the Asian championship, the Junior World Championship and the World Youth Championship. She also won three gold medals at Olympiad. She was part of the Indian team which won double gold during the 45th Olympiad of chess in Hungary.
In addition to the gold medals, she also won an individual bronze medal at the Olympiad of chess. The 19 -year -old is the chess player in the second row of India after Koneru Humpy.
