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Playing with the words chess and Messi, the former multiple world champion Garry Kasparov defined the Argentine child prodigy Faustino Oro who yesterday became the youngest player to obtain the title of International Master in the world chess concert, with 10 years, 8 months and 16 days, surpassing the previous mark belonging to Abhimanyu Mishra, from the United States, with 10 years, nine months and three days.

Certainly, the praise of one of the greatest champions that the specialty has given, the Azerbaijani Gary Kasparov, attracts attention and provokes great pride and passion among the compatriots of the "Messi of chess", another bombastic title that the Spanish press gave him. a while ago when he began to emerge and revolutionize the environment with resounding victories and a rise in his ELO that surprised everyone.

I have already spoken before about this child prodigy and his meteoric career, I have even mentioned the delicate nature of carrying out his career, burning through stages and ages without pressuring him and without making him lose the things that every child should not stop enjoying, whether or not he is a genius or an advance. Especially focused on sports, we have seen several wonder children who over time fail or tire early of the sport that led them to stardom, we have even seen cases of abuse and violence from parents and coaches who surpassed all limits in search of fame and money at the expense of the young man's sacrifice.

Of course, I am not talking specifically about Faustino, I do not know how they carry out his career and if everything develops to his liking and maintains the essential limits between his childhood and the demands of high competition. It's surely not easy.

The fact of the age record also set off alarm bells for me, he surpassed another child by a handful of days of a mark achieved in 2019, 5 years were enough to break it, and that should be enough of an example for his parents and leaders, an effort that could fall at any moment, nothing lasts forever.

But now it is time to enjoy his achievement and that this child was born in my country, it is something amazing since in these latitudes we have less than 5% of the population of India, for example, or 7% of the from China, statistically speaking it would be much more logical for someone to emerge from those places and not from here where chess is not even mandatory in schools. Fate sometimes plays in incomprehensible ways.

Returning to Faustino, he achieved 6.5 points in the master's tournament at Club d'Escacs in Barcelona. This record, in addition to granting him the third and final standard for obtaining the IM title, allowed him to win the competition undefeated A few days before he had been very close in the tournament held in Madrid, but he was just 1/2 point short.

This title has, in addition to the requirement of the 3 standards, an ELO of at least 2400 points and Faustino came to this tournament with 2416, also in that figure, he achieved a new mark of precocity.

Faustino Oro was born in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Cristóbal, a middle-class residential area, from there he catapulted into the world and developed his activity, a few months ago he moved to Barcelona where several teachers assisted him where he is located closer to the noise of the work and squares. Of course, there is also pressure for the new idol to represent Spain, we will see what happens in the future.

How far he can go is unknown; although the potential is there, it is undoubted.