ladies and gentlemen it seems like every day in the world of Chess a new record is broken and uh today is no exception today I'm going to be sharing with you the unbelievable story uh of the current number one chess Prodigy in the world his name is FAO Oro and he is from Argentina uh I've made videos about him before but a major couple of updates have occurred and this young man may very well be on a trajectory to be even greater than Magnus Carl now I know it's early so we have to speak in Hyperbole and hypothesis but fosa Oro just became the youngest ever person in history to earn the title of international Master that's the title that I have he's also almost like 90 rating points higher rated than me already and he did this at 10 years old and 8 months it's Sensational it is something to be in awe and inspired of and by and I'm going to be sharing some of his games with you and as a bonus and as a bonus he defeated hikaro Nakamura in a game of Blitz chess and hikaro was rated 3,250 and he almost did it twice nuts unfathomable just spectacular stuff and I'm going to share the games with you by the way if you're watching this in the first couple of days that this video was out all my courses are 33% off and there's a bunch of free samples so if you ever wanted to get into chess as a beginner or buy an opening course Carl Khan E4 learn the Vienna uh do check them out link is in the description ches.com my courses uh platform 33% off for the Independence Day and uh I'm recording this video um during the Euros Spain Germany just incredible stuff um questionable non-all on that penalty with the ball hitting the the hand I know some people online were upset about that I'm just happy to watch I'm an American I don't have any fan affiliation and later today I got to watch Venezuela Canada that's what I have here I got the Copa America you know what I mean okay so first I'm going to show you the an incredible game foso uh won to clutch out getting the international Master title and then for being amazing and clicking on the video you will get the game against Hikaru all right here we go falino opened this game in the over theboard tournament his opponent is rated 2,300 he opened it with the move d4 and his opponent played a defense known as the bonon uh and the point of the bonon is that black occupies the center with dark squared pawns the bishop comes out to this diagonal white gets the entirety of the center but black kind of utilizes the wing play uh and it's a very well-known opening there are a lot of different ways to set up for white white can play for E4 white can play a lot of different things but uh you know he plays this and he plays like like this so Bishop on F4 Pawn solid not trying to be greedy and occupy a bunch of space and what black likes to do here is play A6 and to prevent black from expanding white plays A4 this position has been reached thousands and thousands of times however black plays Knight A6 and the idea of Knight A6 is pretty simple he wants to play Knight C7 to put pressure on the center and he also wants to support B5 but there's actually a very counterintuitive move here I mean if I show you the move and explain it you're like all right I get it well that move makes perfect sense but the move is actually to take the Knight now I always say don't give up a bishop for a knight unless there's a good reason you can hardly argue here as even as an intermediate player that there's a good reason to do this yes the pawns are doubled having doubled pawns on the outskirts of the board's pretty bad because they don't have any say in what goes on and they can't even really Advance much however you do get this and white just loses a light squared Bishop so doesn't have any control of the light squares and I mean okay look this is a bit far off but you know like you see how quickly this can turn around right so you can't just give up the light squared bishop and then do nothing you kind of have to show the point right so he takes takes and Rook C1 now you'll notice foso started the game with 130 on the clock and now has 134 means that he knows all of this by heart he has memorized this position because in chess you memorize the best moves played previous previously by very good players or by computers black plays Rook B8 falino plays B3 so all of this is known he knows he had to get off of this diagonal that's why he put his Rook there the pawn is defended now and now black plays this move A5 foso Castle so he spends a little bit of time he's just remembering what to do remember I just told you about this bishop the bishop goes to A6 and this is a very very rich position with a lot of ideas but the computer really loves White's position it doesn't think that this bishop is worth much and it thinks that this Pawn is extremely weak and on top of that it thinks white can just March straight down the center of the board so I think the engine here gives a major major preference to the white position but of course you actually have to play the chess F5 is designed to prevent this move from working but it works and uh and and falo plays it and already by move 15 he's just played a very good opening and his opponent has not played a particularly good variation of the opening like he played Knight A6 Knight a six clearly with good engine preparation before the game is just not going to cut it and fao's play is very simple he literally runs it down mid okay to use a League of Legends expression shout out to all the Tyler one fans uh yeah we're straight up just going we're going straight down the middle that's what we're doing and black actually can't defend his position black plays Knight F4 and another kind of hidden counterintuitive move here like White's got a great position maybe you jump forward with the pieces no you actually take the Knight what why would you allow the opponent to have all of this well that's because the entire black position is a total illusion it's an illusion it's actually falling apart at the seams and foso sacrifices his night a beautiful move point being if you take you actually kind of have to take yeah rookie six and that is what we call a skewer you are skewering a high value piece to a lower value piece but there's no way to defend the lower value piece we go here Rook A6 falino is just up a pawn no questions asked he also has five out of six pawns on light squares so this bishop just can't touch anything and these pawns are just sitting around waiting to be taken it's like Pac-Man rook's going to just be like and just like eat everything and that's it and then black plays rook f8 and falino is and and sacrifices material trying to open up the position I mean listen I got to tell you this is Checkmate it is is but you're playing you know and and and you're playing one of the best prodigies in the world he just goes straight for your king and now he uh he G by the way you notice that he sacked his Rook to win back the rook and you cannot take this Rook because Queen A8 is a Checkmate threat Queen C1 and he ends the game in style here falino first he defends his King a little bit but then he plays King G2 you cannot take the Rook again Queen D2 Rook A7 and uh I love the way the game ends look at this Rook takes H7 point is black has to go here Queen f8 black has to go here Queen G7 you take King can't stop the pawn and even if the king somehow could stop the pawn this is still winning even this is winning because you go here and the King cannot get there so fatino absolutely eviscerates this gentleman rated 2320 uh just absolute demolition from start to finish I mean he plays clearly A system that he's familiar with very positional and black literally posed him zero problems I mean he melted this 2300 like like nothing I mean like like he had uh you know rolled out of bed and and he won a bunch of games in this tournament and he got to 2400 and he got to the IM title and we're going to see if he can become the youngest Grandmaster of all time he has about two years to break the record I think the youngest GM ever is like 12 months and uh 12 12 months 12 years and 5 months something like that it's abanu Mishra he broke it a couple of years ago surpassing the record of Serge kakin who had it before him and then honestly perhaps even more impressively he beat Hikaru in a Blitz game and he almost did it twice like Hikaru is number one number two in the world especially in online Blitz I would say in offline and online but I mean hikaro has played probably like a million games of online Blitz nobody even comes close in terms of how experienced he is and it is a skill playing online and seeing the 2D board I mean it is a pre-moving the mouse skills it's a different skill entirely and the amazing thing now I I saw a stat I saw listen to this falino Oro is 10 he has already defeated over 100 title players falino online and offline he's defeated defeated played probably 500 Magnus Carlson played his first title player in a tournament I think at the age of 11 maybe 10 but he was older than foso just think about the level of experience that FAO has been able to develop due to the online chess boom it's incredible it's it it's never happened before in history that these young players just get to log in every day and play marathons against Hikaru I mean even my myself I have played falino like six or seven times I beat him once and he's beaten me like four times all right I don't want to talk about it but even our games and we we we played a long match so that match on its own we've played like 30 games against each other in that match even that I mean he's just getting better he beats people like me beats Grand Masters like hikaro and everybody in between and it it's really incredible to see now let's watch so first Hikaru my man clearly has studied the Scandinavian course by the way check out my Scandinavian course uh Karo played the scandid he he he didn't play it the way that I like to play it by putting the bishop on F5 but you know C6 is absolutely one of the lines then you bring the queen back here get no better time 33% off 7day money back guarantee if you don't like it and and see clearly Hikaru has studied the Gotham Scandinavian Bishop C4 and falo likes to take the risk out of the position so he plays Knight D5 he takes on F6 Queen E2 you will notice hikaro did not take with the Queen instead damaging his structure sacrificing the right to Castle this way and playing Rook to G8 okay falo castles Queen side and hiar and and and yeah again like hikaro just brings the bishop back and falino just very solid now at this point I think there was some plan here um I don't know why Hikaru didn't take the pawn maybe he thought he was under some pressure he didn't I you know maybe he I I don't know I I didn't ask but uh he goes here plays C5 and foso just gets a better position so he get he plays Bishop F4 I think he had an even better chance but he plays Bishop F4 he takes the two Bishops and he plays like this and he's just a very solid player he likes to play without weaknesses he likes to play without clear Targets in his position hearo now goes for an attack plays Knight D5 Bishop D2 plays A4 just very aggressive against the young man man and now we have a bishop dance so Bishop A5 nice move Knight back to B6 Bishop B5 and falo is winning plus 1.7 first of all he's winning if he trades the Queens it's kind of shocking but what he does here is he just inches forward and the Knight can't guard the pawn I mean that's sort of it so if Knight to D7 Bishop B7 is winning so if the you if you play King C7 at the very least you get the extra pawn and you are just the pawn up now it's probably equal but that is very nice for for him also he has this absurd move C4 which is probably not very findable but the point is you're just trying to play C5 so Queen E2 you double up and you also try to play for C5 Bishop A5 Bishop E7 tons of different threats Rook D4 and Bishop C lot of different ideas he plays Queen F1 but one thing I admire is that he's keeping up with hikaro on the clock hikaro plays Bishop takes B2 King B1 Rook D1 Rook D1 and Knight D5 and falo is now completely winning it's plus four against Hikaru that's crazy he's winning he's winning because the queen can no longer guard the bishop F4 wins the game now it's not so simple but the point is that the queen can no longer protect the bishop so you if you play Knight to C3 you can take take and here Rook D3 and the queen cannot continue to protect the bishop if this you have Bishop D7 check first and then you take the bishop so F4 just straight St up wins now foso plays this first and then F4 here's the difference now there's a queen trade threat he might have thought Queen A2 traps the bishop he might have thought a lot of things but this doesn't do it you actually needed to play F4 and I don't know what hikaru's response was so Hikaru gets away with one but it's I mean it's still a game it's still a game the position is equal but all of a sudden falino is desperately trying not to get checkmated E5 Bishop E5 and you know he has some tricks but he simply doesn't have the amount of time and he blunders check King A2 Rook A1 and that's it so he took on B6 a draw here for white is in the hand if you play Rook H7 due to the opposite color Bishops and the fact that the king can walk out and white white is very solid I mean white is not going to lose but in a Blitz game it is a totally lost position for white and unfortunately foso loses but he was winning for a move but he did beat Hikaru and I'm going to show you how he did it so in this game hikaro went for the Caro Khan he's just playing all my openings by the way I got a Caro Khan course as well but hikaro plays it his way hikaro likes to play C6 G6 it's called Mo modern guran named after the Georgian greed master who used to play it like this uh and the point is very straightforward I mean you just basically do this and you can sort of pre-move this type of caroan against everything that's kind of the nice thing about it is like if white plays Knight F3 and then Knight C3 you can play G6 and that's why hikaro likes it for blits if if honestly if you play Fantasy variation you can still play G6 so you could play G6 caroan against everything and it will make your life a little bit simpler falino plays H3 very common move to prevent Bishop to G4 and now hikaro plays this Knight F6 ef6 and they both Castle I've played this many times with white generally when I play this with white I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing like not a clue Black's position is so solid you have a pawn advantage in the center but sometimes I've tried to put my Pawn there and then black like plays Knight D7 puts the Knight there when the pawn moves blockades my Pawn I you know so I want to watch two people whose average rating is 3100 play this position that I don't understand for either color so Knight to D7 Bishop to F4 Rook E8 C4 okay so you know I've played C3 before because I thought well the bishop you know I blocked the bishop no C4 trying to play for D5 he car plays Knight f8 it's a very very normal straightforward very Cy position and yeah it's a major question of like will white play D5 if white doesn't play D5 then black will slowly consolidate and start creating counterplay so Queen D2 Bishop F5 this is the way I've played the position with black but even with black I don't really know what I'm doing uh I just sort of put my pieces out you know and then I put pressure on White Center because it's there and again this is sort of what black has done black splits their pawns to have the D and E lines open uh toward the opponent oh I just spilled this drink all over my keyboard because it was open we we you know we live a we we live a life out here that's that's that's what we do it's your day is not exciting unless your favorite football club wins or you know you spill your drink over your keyboard anyway old keyboard rookie one Queen D7 there it is it's everything that I talked about I mean this is exactly the way that you are supposed to play this position Bishop B3 Bishop B3 is kind of a nervy move you it's like you don't want to go forward now I have played this position before moves like Bishop H6 they don't really do it you're not going to Checkmate anybody here you have no followup at all in fact you you could even say trading for Black's really bad Bishop on G7 makes your position much worse so that's not a good decision Bishop D3 is okay but it kind of fails tactically uh there are even some lines where a move like Queen F5 is possible you wouldn't do it now because you would be tripling your pawns but as long as you activate enough Material off the side of the board you got you know you get the queen to F5 if this queen is away there there sometimes you can trade the queen as long as you're UND doubling this Pawn like I've seen this Pawn structure before and then the queen goes to F5 so you know you got to you got to do it the right way but it's there uh G5 so Hikaru is like all right I'm gonna same side attack him Queen B4 B6 and yeah I mean falo is just playing fast and trying to reroute and doing all this stuff but it's like he doesn't want to engage with hikaro right so hikaro kind of senses that he's like all right I'm going to try to you know I'm going to try to punish the young man who sort of just absent-mindedly danced his pieces out and he's not really doing anything because he's a little bit nervous well now here comes foso that's the that's the move I mean I've been telling you the whole game like that's the move you got to play D5 if you don't play D5 you're going to get absolutely nothing you got to play the move D5 if you want any hope of an advantage so Karu plays C5 that's a big decision now I think Kar didn't want to allow this and Bishop B5 I think it failed for a tactical reason but he plays C5 Faso moves the queen now this Pawn is what we call a protected pass Pawn so it's passing because no pawns prevented the way you imagine a pass Pawn is if no pawns existed would the pawn go to the end yes if no pawns existed would the pawn yes and it's protected and it's going to be protected and that's going to be protected so you're gonna have a giga Super Omega Sigma Mega protected Pawn hikaro tries to create counterplay by sacrificing a pawn in the center to open up his Bishops for me this is when Hikaru is the scariest when he's trying to be elusive he's like a big fish that you try to catch and then he's like super like you can't you can't get your hands on him he's like and then like you know he gets away so Bishop takes Pawn takes Queen takes here we go this part of the game is when I would start being like Oh my God oh my God I have a good position oh my God oh my God I have a good and I would get panicked and I would lose but foso is 10 years old he literally doesn't have a nervous system like it's been proven medical study there there are peer-reviewed medical trials that you by the earliest that you know what anxiety and self-doubt is is like 12 years old I'm lying I have absolutely zero medical training or background whatsoever but I remember experiencing like my self-awareness and anxiety when I was like 11 12 it's like starts in school you know you're like these people are making fun of me and then you start like you know you start losing self-confidence slowly and then your teenage years it gets even worse fastino's 10 bro and he's 3,000 his self-confidence is stratospheric level all right so he goes Queen D2 all right he spends one second retreating Hikaru spends one second advancing falino plays B4 he's like bro hikaro I don't even care I don't even know what you're doing I don't know who you are okay Queen to A4 Karu is like again looking for counterplay here looking and and frost just just straight down just running it down mid just like he did against that 2300 it doesn't matter if your opponent is 2,300 or 3200 we're going straight down the middle of the board now karo's time is running out not literally he's the fastest player in in the world but Queen A3 Rook C1 and unfortunately at some point you overthink it the advantage is gone what should he have done instead he should have kept going straight if Rook e w he should have played Queen E1 not Rook E1 because that would take his eye off multiple things but in particular Bishop to C3 so hikaro made it very difficult that's what he does he makes it extremely difficult to actually beat him Rook C1 he stops the threat now A5 A5 is a mistake a5's a bit too much and actually here hikaro should have went backwards which is a move I actually would almost think is expected from him to find point being he's sniping that Pawn so if you push forward suddenly black is winning you have these two beautiful pass pawns but you're going to lose all your pieces so it's typical stuff right and and and Hikaru actually lets the ego take control almost a little bit here he's like oh I'm going to get active I'm you know aggressive counterplay A5 and foso just doesn't panic at all he doesn't he just goes forward and he's like this Pawn is irrelevant now had hear found Bishop f8 we'd be having a different conversation but he plays this move a move too late why because the pawn has arrived on the shores of the black position and pawn takes Rook is a massive problem a move ago that move would have been good had he Caro played Bishop B2 you're not in time with this I take and then I'll just play defense somehow I mean I'm not actually oh like this ah yeah and then yeah yeah yeah yeah but fatino is there he's got two Queens on the board it dust settles he's up a night all he has to do is hold his nerves there there's nothing there Bishop C4 Queen C3 Queen Bishop back to B3 hikaro not trading Queen F6 Bishop C4 Rook B6 look at that but time is ticking time is ticking 50 seconds on the clock Karo creating some counterplay falino playing D6 Rook D1 how do you make progress here 50 seconds on the clock what do you do F3 look at that look at that he's bringing his King to the party he knows that's what he needs King escapes King 2 played in one played in you know how F he played F3 1.4 seconds do you know what I would be doing here preventing diarrhea from exploding out of my body because I ate something bad but also because I'm terrified like that's the thing you get at one of these good pairings you are terrified imagine you you're rated 400 or 800 or 1,200 you're playing somebody who's like 3 400 points higher than you you're going to beat them you're going to get nervous that's what's going to happen cuz we're humans frostino is not human he's a machine he plays King 2 King E2 and there's the Knight and that's what he needs Rook B2 there's a really funny clip of falino I posted it on on Twitter nobody's calling it X literally nobody uh on Twitter and foso right here said if I don't win this position I'm GNA die like in Spanish he played Rook B7 hikaro played H5 and the second hikaro went for a trap if Bishop takes Rook B7 he took his eye off the pawn which means the pawn is protected and Rook B8 and that's GG's that is GG's and in this position mid is Unstoppable and hikaro resigned he resigned the game because the queen is coming falino had a great position one time against zaro he wasn't able to put it away but the second time he did and he beats him in a Blitz game he's he's he's beating Naru in bullet his rating his record against Naro is like three wins and 20 losses his record against Magnus is one win he beat him in a bullet game but this is so nuts this is the youngest I am of all time 10 years old and like 8 months his Fay rating is over 2440 so he's 60 ELO away from becoming a Grandmaster but he needs to get the Norms just like me by the way uh and unbelievable stuff he just beat Hikaru just crazy absolutely crazy crazy crazy he's so good he's on Pace to be better than Magnus we are living in a golden era of prodigies and this dude is literally The Golden Boy of Chess his last name is AO and if you don't know what that is that means gold so Sensational I got nothing else to say all right 33% off the courses he studi them I have no evidence of that but you should definitely study that maybe you could get you know one tenth as good that would be like 300 so get out of here