Faustino Oro: The second-youngest chess grandmaster in history

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