The 12-year-old Argentinean teenage sensation IM Faustino Oro continued to impress at the ongoing FIDE Chess World Cup 2025, holding India’s No. 5 Vidit Gujrathi to a draw in back-to-back classical matches and forcing tiebreaks in their second-round clash on Wednesday in Arpora, Goa.

Fondly dubbed the “Messi of Chess” and touted as the next big thing in the sport, Oro punched well above his weight by denying a full point to Vidit in both of their games. In the first classical match on Tuesday, Vidit was pushed to the wall by Oro, who maintained a time advantage over the Indian throughout the game and forced the 2023 FIDE Grand Swiss winner to end the game by threefold repetition.

The second game followed a similar pattern, with Vidit, a former Candidates entrant, behind on the clock thro

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