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10-year-old prodigy FM Faustino Oro is once again in the spot light. Now a clip of the Argentinian beating world number-one Magnus Carlsen in chess . com's Bullet Brawl has captured the attention of millions of viewers within a few days.
Few players can claim victory against a world champion, but now 10-year-old Oro has achieved just that. On Sunday, march 23,2024 'Fausti' beat none other than Carlsen in chess . com 's weekly Bullet Brawl tournament, played with a minute on the clock for each player, after Carlsen blundered a piece following a tense battle and was forced to resign after 48 moves.
"I beat Carlsen!" exclaimed Oro while streaming the game on his own KZbin channel. The joyous moment was posted by ESPN Argentina and then shared by an Argentinian journalist with two million X/Twitter followers. It currently has more than four million views.
"I'm very happy; a great joy for me because I had never played against him," Fausti said after the game, according to Argentinian news site InfoBae. Carlsen is yet to comment on the loss.
It was an impressive display by the youngster, who was never worse and led on the clock after winning a pawn in the opening. Seven seconds behind, Carlsen blundered a piece on move 38 in a roughly equal endgame and resigned 10 moves later.