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Received today — 11 May 2026 El País in English
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  • Faustino Oro: The second-youngest chess grandmaster in history Leontxo García
    Three years and four months after Alejandro Oro and Romina Simondi resigned from their well‑paid jobs as accounting experts in Argentina and moved to Spain to boost their son’s chess career, Faustino Oro has inscribed his name in a very special chapter of chess history. He has earned the grandmaster title — more demanding than a black belt in judo — at 12 years, six months, and 26 days. He is the second‑youngest of all time, surpassed only by the U.S. player of Indian descent Abhimanyu Mishra, w
     

Faustino Oro: The second-youngest chess grandmaster in history

11 May 2026 at 09:27
Faustino Oro during the Chess World Cup in Goa, India, in November 2025.

Three years and four months after Alejandro Oro and Romina Simondi resigned from their well‑paid jobs as accounting experts in Argentina and moved to Spain to boost their son’s chess career, Faustino Oro has inscribed his name in a very special chapter of chess history. He has earned the grandmaster title — more demanding than a black belt in judo — at 12 years, six months, and 26 days. He is the second‑youngest of all time, surpassed only by the U.S. player of Indian descent Abhimanyu Mishra, who set the record by two months.

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Oro and Pepe Cuenca discuss one of the games from the second semi-final of the Magistral Ciudad de León tournament, held last July at the León Auditorium.
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